In the main temple of the Ministry of Defense, a stained glass window with the warrior Peresvet was consecrated; it was made from shrapnel from battle sites in Mariupol

In the main temple of the Ministry of Defense, a stained glass window made from fragments collected in Mariupol was consecrated. This was reported by the “Soft Power” telegram channel, which belongs to the “Katyusha” patriotic movement.

The publication says that the glass was collected by Katyusha activists at the sites of the battles that took place in the city in the spring and summer, and the stained glass itself is now planned to be transferred to one of the schools in Mariupol, “preferably to the history room.”

“Someone collected glass from the rubble, someone took a bag of glass to Moscow, drew a sketch, painted stained glass elements, participated in the consecration, or is now writing this post. And each one has an absolutely incredible feeling - creating something whole and beautiful from something destroyed,” the activists explained.

The authors of the work claim that they depicted the “monk-warrior of Peresvet” returning to Dmitry Donskoy after the victory over Chelubey on the Kulikovo Field. “Today Mariupol is our new Kulikovo Field. The place from which the renewed Russian statehood began, the city is a symbol, the city where truth triumphed. Just like then, more than seven hundred years ago,” says the movement’s message.

In her Telegram channel, anthropologist Tatyana Krikhtova called both the idea and the implementation of the stained glass window a “creepy cult of death.” “For Peresvet, this fight, as well as for his opponent, was fatal,” she wrote, “he is considered victorious because the corpse stayed in the saddle longer. That is, there is a dead man jumping on the stained glass window.”

Previously, Katyusha activists made a calendar with congratulations to the Russian military on Navy Day, performed in Tula on Airborne Forces Day, showing a collection of “clothes with meaning” called “Shattered to Paratroopers,” and also sent medals “For the revival of fascism."