Tver will not turn away

The Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudeny ordered almost 200 regional officials and deputies to visit the Liturgy of Patriarch Kirill in the Assumption Cathedral of the Kremlin, dedicated to the 700th anniversary of the death of Prince Mikhail Tversky. It is reported by Kommersant.

Officials and deputies went to Moscow early on Tuesday morning on a specially ordered high -speed train "Swallow". Vice-governors, ministers of the regional government, speaker and deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the region, the head of the districts, the chairman of the regional electioncetic and the regional business ombudsman went to the Patriarchal Liturgy.

Rudenya himself went to Moscow in a service car.

The government of the region included a trip to the Assumption Cathedral in the work plan. She was mandatory regardless of confessional affiliation and religious beliefs; Refusals and replacements were not allowed. In the waiting room of the Tver station, registration was organized for a "swallow".

Due to the trip of the Tver officials to the capital, the morning train Klin - Moscow was canceled.

Meanwhile, the vice-governor of the Tver region, Vadim Belotserkovsky, says in a commentary on the Moscow Radio station, said that no one was forced to travel to Moscow, and there were much more people who wanted to visit the liturgy, but the number of delegation had to be limited due to the small estates of the Assumption Cathedral. In total, according to the official, about 300 people went to the capital, that is, one and a half times more than Kommersant wrote.

The trip was financed, according to Belotserkovsky, at the expense of certain private donations.

Tver Prince Mikhail Yaroslavich, born in 1271, in 1305 received a label from the Golden Horde to the great reign of Vladimir, thus becoming the Supreme Prince of North-East Rus'. Opposed the intrigues of the Moscow Prince Yuri Danilovich (older brother Ivan Kalita), who was competing for this label. In the 1317th, Mikhail defeated the United Army of Yuri and Tatars in Bortnev’s battle. He was summoned to the Khan court in the Horde and there on December 5, 1318 was executed. Yuri received a label for Vladimir reign.

In the 1549th, Mikhail Tverskaya was ranked by the Russian Orthodox Church to the Faces of the Holy Boarse.

The veneration of Prince Mikhail since the beginning of the 1990s has become a characteristic feature of the Tver regional identity. His role in the struggle of Tver and Moscow for hegemony in northeastern Rus' is especially emphasized.