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"Church Zhirinovsky" Andrei Tkachev, his fans and opponents

“The women are arrogant, nasty, and if she does not receive in her forehead at least once in her life, she will not understand anything ... The men are to blame for everything. Babier rescued ... ” - Archpriest Andrei Tkachev made his debut in the Russian media field six years ago with this bright phrase. The bet on shocking justified itself-Tkachev went from the well-known in the narrow circles of the super-standard clergy of the Church of the Resurrection of the Sunday on the Assumption Bolshoi to the TV star, the video blogger-millionaire, about which Patriarch Kirill publicly and flattering.

Tkachev’s statements are still ambiguous and often cause criticism of colleagues. However, if you ask for a middle -aged citizen visiting the Church on holidays (it seems that this is the current incarnation of the “Soviet woman”), to call her a priest, let’s say, federal scale, you can be sure that the mention of Andrei’s father will sound immediately after the patriarch. Tkachev’s quotes with silent illustrations are full of various kinds of soul -saving publics for housewives, and we can confidently say that it was he who became the today's face of the popular Russian Orthodoxy. Despite the fact that the statements of a missionary are often extremely doubtful from a canonical point of view, and the tone is such that critics call Archpriest “Church Zhirinovsky”. We studied this person with his diverse grimaces - as well as the biography of a person who, having no secular or spiritual higher education, managed to earn a reputation as the vote of the militant church.

Mentor-school

Until 2014, Andrei Tkachev served in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, first in the clergy of the Church of St. George the Victorious in Lviv, then in the Kiev temple of Agapit Pechersky. Then his teaching and missionary activities began: Archpriest read the course at the Lviv Theological Academy, led the missionary department of the Kyiv diocese for about a year, and led the program on the Orthodox television channel Kievan Rus. It was television that became an elevator for Tkachev-from the west to the capital, he moved for the filming, and not to transfer to any temple, with a single-missing letter of the Lviv diocese.

As he began to teach, the question is open, since there is no education and has no education. A graduate of the Moscow Suvorov School, before the start of the church career, studied at the Military Institute of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR at the Faculty of Special Propaganda, but was expelled. From 1992 to 1994, he studied an exterior at the Kyiv Theological Seminary, entered the Kyiv Theological Academy, but from there he was expelled for absenteeism. He himself claimed that he interfered with the “active lifestyle”, called himself “self -taught”.

Now, on the Malofeevsky TV channel "Tsargrad", he tirelessly stigmes the departing his homeland - both ordinary disagreements and stars: Khamatov, Pugachev, Galkin (the latter was recognized as the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation) ...

He previously called the emigrants to be poverty and "disgrace of the Russian nation", but the emigration is an anamnesis at the television tank itself: a self-taught propagandist left his homeland in 2014.

The reasons are called different. The editor of the Orthodoxy information portal Dmitry Marchenko, which was referred by the Rossiyskaya Gazeta, argued that some extremists threatened Tkachev by reprisal.

Tkachev himself did not publicly talk about any threats, but stated that “the farther from the quasi -state“ Ukraine ”, the easier it is to breathe and give an assessment”, as well as that he fled from “collective rage” that reigned there. The Ukrainian shepherds in passing said that Father Andrei simply moved to a more profitable place. Indeed, in Russia, the fate of the “religious politician” develops quite safely and fiercely: on the one hand, the church leadership is loyal to Tkachev and turn a blind eye to his escapades, including anti -icing statements, on the other hand, his patron can safely be called the so -called “Orthodox oligarch” Konstantin Malofeev, in the structures of which the Archpriest found himself.

On the Russian agenda, Tkachev appeared shortly before the move, at the end of 2013 - on the edited by Tikhon Shevkunov Portal “Orthodoxy.ru”. In an interview , the head of the missionary department of the Kiev diocese of the condodilrevolution and the priests who came to the Maidan, mysteriously adding: “Now is not the time of protests. When the due hour comes - the legal one - then it will be possible to discuss and think how to express your point of view in the correct and effective form. Everything has its time. "

A month later Tkachev in Kiev made a sermon,

In which he cursed the participants of the Euromaidan, saying that he refuses to pray for them, but asks God to send them illness.

The performance had some resonance, although in those days in Ukraine the agenda was much more significant than the statements of one of the priests of the UOC, even from the amvon. However, according to the church line, Tkachev received the penalty: he was called to the Kyiv Metropolitan to give an explanation, in which he admitted that he really exceeded the degree of competence as a preacher and regrets that he aroused attacks on the UOC in the media. Soon the archpriest was brought out behind the state. That is, the persecution of Tkachevsky eloquence brought to him not from some radicals, but from the part of the Moscow Patriarchate, which was then the UOC.

Six months later, Andrei Tkachev discovered in Russia and was temporarily appointed to the clergy of the house church of the martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, whose rector is Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, the former head of the Patriarchal press service, and now the official confessor of the Tsargrad television channel.

Yes, the ultrapatriotic channel has its own confessor - it was conveniently invented if the release of the sins committed on the air can be obtained immediately upon leaving the studio.

Here a wide field for fantasies opens about what other non -core specialists would be appropriate in the state of other media. Expert in narcology? Psychotherapist? The confessor, by the way, would probably be useful not only to “Constantinople” ...

The television channel is not the only project of Malofeev, to which Vigilyansky was involved: he is the confessor of the gymnasium of St. Vasily the Great in the village of Zaitsevo, Moscow Region and the rector of the Church of St. Basil the Great with her. He is the founder of the gymnasium of Tsargrad LLC (Chairman of the Board of Trustees - all the same Konstantin Malofeev). Education at the Orthodox gymnasium is not cheap: 107,000 rubles per month plus 600 thousand entrance fee when enrolling.

In the same gymnasium, already in August 2014, Tkachev was appointed head of the law -teacher part - with the obligation “on free days” to serve in the metropolitan church of the Sunday of the Word. And three years later, Vigilyansky finally takes Tkachev under his own - and Malofeevsky - wing: Andrei's father is enrolled in the clergy of the gymnasium church of St. Vasily the Great. There he pronounces his sermons, the records of which are replicated on the network, but it is difficult to listen to the frantic minister of the cult: the temple along with his star preacher is strictly guarded from prying eyes. The site of the gymnasium states that the church is located on the protected territory of the children's educational institution, the pass to attending services is temporarily not issued. On the phone indicated there, no one answers the phone.

However, it is possible to see the interiors in which Tkachev stigmatizes the combustors and mildews, for example, on the website of the Cam construction company. It states that the faces "showed the top of their skill in working with natural stone."

The temple was mounted and finished with a mosaic of 21 thousand elements Paul from natural stone with an area of ​​420 square meters, walls with an area of ​​450 “squares” are faced with marble, columns, pilasters and grates with handicrafts.

Marble used different species: Italian, including the famous Carrars, as well as Turkish and Russian. This luxury is very different from the poor interiors of a tiny wooden Kyiv temple, where our character served before leaving.

"Break his wife on the knee"

By the time of enrollment in the staff of the temple in the village of Zaitsevo, Father Andrei takes a very good position in the Russian Orthodox Church: he more than once preaches at the Patriarchal services in the rests of Christ the Savior and in the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin, becomes the confessor of the youth department of the Moscow city diocese and a member of the Commission on Church Education and Diaconia. In 2019, Patriarch Kirill publicly states that Tkachev “can make a very significant contribution to the strengthening of faith, including among modern youth” - a rare personal assessment of the First Hierarch against the modest parish father. True, at that time the archpriest is no longer just a priest - he is a YouTube star and the spiritual face of the Constantinople television channel.

Under the heading “Holy Pravda” every day, then every other day, his video rejection appears on a variety of topics. The absence of academic education does not prevent the priest in holy simplicity of ranting about poetry, cinema, medicine, history, climate (the reason for its changes, according to the Archpriest, - “mental European fornication”) - and, of course, how well a well -known literary character, “give cosmic tips”:

“Who is indulging with gay parades-wait for the floods!”, “While you have milk teeth, sit in the corner and do not tweet” (this is about young politicians), “Russian must die with a smile”, “than to come to the church, it is better to sit at home”, “Turn off the TV-there will be no coronavirus.”

He repeated the last thesis in the sermon that he appeared in the respirator, and when he heard laughter in the temple, the rescuer took off and said: “So that you are so neighing over these demonic nasty things all your life. These bastards tortured us, all this evil spirits are. ” “Gades” - presumably, the media warning about the dangers of the pandemic, the latter is reset, if you turn off the TV. The topic was also developed on the air, but for violation of the service rules, the recording is deleted from YouTube.

With the respirator, Tkachev leaned out the stick: the head of the department of external church ties of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan Hilarion, called the joke of inappropriate, not mentioning, however, the name of the comedian. At a diplomatically difficult moment, when the Russian Orthodox Church was at risk of closing temples to exclude mass infection, this kind of Covid-dissidentiality clearly worked against it. Father Andrei understood the policy of the employer quickly - and blessed mass vaccination on the air. And in order to ensure the trust of citizens, he called the State Proposals first to take root - following the example of Catherine the Great.

Another remote video of Tkachev on a medical topic is about female health. It can still be found on the network to decryption, I have made a lot of Speech. The main idea is

Why be treated, demonstrating their flesh to outsiders, albeit doctors, if you die, great happiness?

The manner of expression is the author: “So that I die! So that I undressed, showed my boobs to the doctor?! ( Shows gestures .) Yeah! Blind to you all! ( Shows two Kukish. ). Never in life! I will die - I will not show! So that she lay on the table, spread her legs, so that she climbed with all sorts of eyepieces a gynecologist ( again a cuckoo ) - in, never in life! I will die, but I will not show my chest to a man! "

So the archpriest is represented by the monologue of the righteous Macrina, who allegedly refused the treatment of the tumor. And he does not forget to brand those who prefer to visit the doctors: “And our all are wide open! Before everyone - to health! Undress everywhere! And in the doctoral, and on the beach, and on dancing - all naked go. And they get sick and dug like dogs, under a fence, meaninglessly living, meaninglessly dead ... Stupid nonsense is all. Drink holy water more often and pray to God. And if I had to die - well, die. ”

It is worth noting that the canonical church never forbade a person of treatment, more than that, a number of doctors, from the great martyr Panteleimon to St. Luke of Crimean, reads the saints. Conscious negligence of health is considered a sin and negligence to the created Almighty vessel - the human body. Refusal of medical care is rather close to sectarianism. But this is canonically, and here the flight of improvisations ... It is unclear, however, whether the preacher takes responsibility for the fans following his advice and abandoned medical care for considerations of the falsely understood chastity.

The medical topic excites Tkachev. In addition to coronavirus and gynecology, he, of course, spoke about abortions - quite in the spirit of the official church, but with personal accents: he offered the viewer to transfer the right to abortion to the biography of the Virgin Mary or mother John the Baptist,

He demanded that the abortion of gynecologists decorate in red robes, and from the patient to charge for the cremation of the fetus if she does not want to “throw it to the dogs”.

The female topic does not let go of Andrei's father at all. The most famous Epic Fale in connection with it happened back in 2016, when an audio recording of the Kiev period of Tkachevsky mission was found on the Web. Archpriest explains to young people how to treat women. In particular, the shepherd says: “There are different wives. I bought a curly one - she is happy for six months, and before the other it is necessary to spread a carpet.

The woman wants her to be put in place. When he meets-eyes down, such a sheep, all silk-shining, and then, when they got married, her horns begin to grow ... I need to break the woman on her knee, beat her horns ... bend her, rub her, stuff her into a washing machine.

I don't know what to do with her. That is, a man must break a woman one hundred percent! Rinse all this pornographic paint from it, which is applied to it by modern civilization. He can’t - let him not marry, let him go to the monks. Otherwise, the woman will command them. He will be a henpecked. She will twist them, as she wants, to roll up hysteria ... "

This popular "Domostroy" is very poorly correlated with Christianity. And certainly, Tkachev has nothing to do with religion: “I can relax to 45, from 17 to 50 I have a choice. And you are not. You don't understand - you are a fool. Fool, and a sterosomic. This means impenetrable. I can from 17 to 45, to 50, to 55, choose, if I want.

And you can be from 16 to 30, and then then they replaced you, who are 16, and you need to smear, paint, invent something. Do you understand? The consideration does not work? Goodbye!"

A number of priests were indignant at what was said. The scandal undertook to settle the same Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, who spoke out in the spirit that the books and articles of Tkachev of family violence were not promoted, and quotes are probably wrapped from context. Tkachev caught tonality and stated that in that conversation he simply ironized.

He really has less radical statements about family and marriage. But the theses of the scandalous “spiritual conversation” were not expressed for the first time: Tkachev’s passage about women who are looking for a good husband, but did not retain innocence before marriage, was known: “Are all these sluts want a husband of a worker and sober, but they don’t want later? Where did they spread their halves, I'm sorry? To whom, where, when, with whom, how many ... dogs are frantic? And not give a fist under your jaw? "

The archpriest carefully hides the details of his personal life. It is known that he, as befits a white priest, is married, has four children. Nothing can be heard about Tkacheva’s priest.

What other topics are worried about the priest? Of course, gay! They, according to Tkachev, are the culprits of the hurricane Catherine in New Orleans. They "hack the mentality of entire nations and change the political establishment." They prevent us from giving birth! Furrantly stigmatizes Tkachev not only LGBT, but also those who support equal rights. The whole issue is dedicated to companies that, according to Andrei's father, finance LGBT movements in the world. In the circle of such, he enlists Ford, BMW and Starbax, warning that every fan of swallowing coffee on the run pays 10 cents from a cup in favor of God -dimensional sodomites.

Tkachev responds with lightning speed to the Volodinsky telegram-post on the prohibition of the propaganda of “non-traditional values”, referring to those to a heap of Child-Fri, radical feminism and environmental movements, “which are too many”.

The performance was counted: Tkachev was invited to an orthotny series. After participating in the Duma discussion of the bill on the prohibition of “gay propaganda”, he erupted with a new video in which he stated,

that "we entered the spiritual war under the chairmanship of Volodin." And that the introduction of this draft law "exceeds the value of a major victory on the battlefields."

I’m not sure that the iconography of the Georian warrior Volodin was flattered, but the Tkachev improvisations now and then come out of the shores. In the short videos of the “Holy Pravda”, the host is not shy about the deliberate, or perhaps natural vernacular (“To whom, but I'm talking about hares!”), And indeed little is shy: “Dad, mother, I am an unhappy family: there are three khanuriks against the background of the rolling sun - this is not a family at all!” Razuhabistoy, Kabatskoy preaching falls into a parallel with the power that has established in the 2000s in the 2000s. What is pop - such is the parish. And now, one of the issues, the archpriest with a smile ends with the phrase: "It's hard in the village without a nagan!"

The scandalous answer of Tkachev is known to the viewer, whose surname and name he named on the air, and then erupted with rudeness:

“The idiots come to confession and begin to list their dirty points. When you went to the toilet, you picked in your shit, I'm sorry? So why are you indulging in your sins so much? "

“The rhetorical questions of Tkachev are amazing - they say, why should I delve into your sins? Ah, about. Andrey, this is your profession. They pay you money for this, ”Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev commented on this blog in his blog.

“Ah love, oh peace! Sodom and Gomorrah - the work of God "

The main theme of Archpriest Tkachev from the first days on the Russian land was Ukraine.

Father Andrei took a strict anti -Ukrainian position almost immediately after the transition to the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church, but with the beginning he was completely experiencing a star hour. From the Self-Mademigent, who has been forced to prove his own viability for years, the former Lviv loader (and this is how his labor biography began) Andrei Tkachev turned into a hupor of propaganda, skillfully using his own experience of Ukrainian life as a strong side, a marker of reliability.

He, they say, is not from the side, he - he has the right. And the shocking bloodthirstiness is justified in the eyes of the flock, which is used to looking for a preaching of peace and love in Christianity.

At the same time, in the sermons and rollers, Tkachev calls the special operation of the very word that inventive protesters are in vain camouflaged with star and other “wobble”.

From the first years of service in the Russian Federation, Father Andrei called the UOC -“insolvent, ambiguous organization”, “apostates from among the False Great”, “hidden two -faced goats”. “I drove a kilometer from the border - it is already easier, a thousand - quite easy. Many in Russia do not fully understand how much this land, full of all -Russian Orthodox shrines became a plagued place. There is a real collective demolition! People have gone crazy with their godlessness. ”

On February 25, Tkachev made a software sermon in which he stated that "*** did not begin, but ends, and who does not understand this, he is simply a bastard." The priest uses Kabatsky rhetoric not only in the studio, but also on the amvon.

Further - after the picturesque story about the “Golden Eagle”, which the rebels on the Maidan allegedly fired from the double -barrels from five meters - should be extremely sophisticated for those who are looking for the love of God in the church: “Ah love, oh peace! - They say. The truth is serious, and we are trying to close from her with love. Sodom and Gomorrara ( referring to the Old Testament legend of the extermination of cities. - T. B. ) - the work of God. As in the film "Operation" Y ":" It is necessary, Fedya, it is necessary. "

The Father's doubts finished off with a threat with reference to personal experience: "If they came here, they would cut me and the blood of the roof." Here it should be noted a certain inconsistency of the views of the preacher, who until recently convinced the flock that it was necessary to die with joy and meekly. Well, he set the point, authoritatively guaranteeing that God blesses what was happening: "The Lord did not retreat from His people and His Church." So confidently interprets the father of heaven, as if he is convinced that he certainly grabbed this god by his beard. For such confidence, by the way, in the church tradition there is a name.

The state when it seems as if he has reached such spiritual heights that you personally communicate with the angels, or even higher, is called the charm - from the word flattery, not true.

Tkachev is now stigmatizing his own homeland tirelessly, calling the foundations of Ukrainian statehood Mazepa, Petlyura and Bandera. In September, he writes a video in Ukrainian, however, his speech with a number of gross errors elusively resembles a multiple ridiculous manner of saying former Kyiv Prime Minister Azarov. In this strange video, the Archpriest graciously promises not to fight with the Ukrainian language, church and culture, but only “with the Ukrainian that has become American”, and invites Ukrainians to become one system with the Russians “against the common enemy - World Capital”.

I note that although the views of the clergy on their own do not differ in unanimity, but the preachers loyal to the state, welcoming military operations, nevertheless not so enthusiastically speak of bloodshed and inevitable victims.

Tkachev burns with a verb, without leaving the “operating” agenda, interrupting only to stigmatizing gays and spitting on the grave of the newly buried Gorbachev.

The Archpriest reacts to partial mobilization, stating that now the surge of religiosity and the growth of the number of parishioners expects. And deftly interprets the topic of prolonged military operations: it turns out that God had other plans - so that the people woke up.

True, here he slides on his favorite topic: “I urge women to move away from the mirror and close the cosmetic bag, to wear ( as in the original. - T. B.) humble and shy into the temple of God.”

Finally, Tkachev discovers an unexpected example of Russianness in Ramzan Kadyrov.

He declares the belonging of the head of Chechnya to Russian civilization and non-profit to it “pairs of hundreds of thousands of Ivanov-Petrov-Sidnyvov”, which condemn his, which means they “applied” to the edge. ”

Shpan in the cassock

Researchers of the phenomenon of the preacher notge that Tkachev is an industry. He publishes a colossal volume of content in social networks - and, by the way, is the only Russian clergyman presented on all platforms, and the only representative of the Russian ORC, noticeable in Tiktoka.

"Tsargrad", the program on the "Savior", up to a hundred printed books. Read, sold out. Most, even those that came out in the Ukrainian period, were published in Russia. And when does he only have time? All this is not only an unconditional personal resource, but, obviously, significant organizational and financial investments. So the change of fate and geography clearly paid off.

Colleagues in the workshop of father Andrei Tkachev criticized many times. The main reason is the incontinence of the preacher in speeches. The priest and publicist Yakov Krotov in his sharp manner called Tkachev "the voice of an uneducated, wildly ignorant swamp." The rector of the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral in Novosibirsk, Alexander Novopashin, christened the language of Andrei Tkachev with the tongue of street punks: “Not only an Orthodox priest, not only an Orthodox person, but simply a sane, more or less cultural person will not allow his own statements, especially publicly.”

And Dionysius Kamenshchikov, the head of the missionary department of the Saratov diocese, noted about the manner of behavior of the archpriest:

“One bad priest, as they told us in the seminary, replaces two institutions of atheism.”

However, sometimes wild statements by the priest do not reduce his popularity. Philologist Andrei Desnitsky on this occasion notes that the audience of the preacher is just mainly of women who take rudeness for manifestation of power - and in the comments they thank the lessons of humility. So the love of parishioners for the Archpriest, perhaps simply learned over the years of unlucky life, the eternal Russian stereotype: "Bezes - means loves."

Women who have been waiting for the brutal rude Gosha from the Oscar -winning Menshovsky film are still ready for granted insults from the amvon, rostrum or screen. Note that it is parishioners who are the main daily sponsors of any Russian temple. Shocking machism, translated by the authorities or pastoral, they are equally accepted and are ready in response to the victims.

Tkachev himself, over and over again, replicating the techniques of Ham rhetoric, may become a prisoner of the audience when the boundaries of the missionary adaptation to the flock completely disappear. Especially if the main addressees of the messages are still not ordinary parishioners, but also by the authorities, who like the authorities who like the expression “to wet in the toilet” and jokes about “grandparents”.

As for Zhirinovsky in the cassock, the image of the preacher really refers to the image of the late leader of the LDPR: both performed in accordance with the General Line of the authorities, but brought it in their speeches to such absurdity that, against the background of this verbal fountain, less extreme cannibals seem quite sane speakers.