What a pop!

"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:

«Приходят идиоты на исповедь и начинают перечислять свои грязные точки. Вы, когда в туалет сходили, вы ковырялись в своем дерьме, извиняюсь? Так почему же вы в своих грехах так ковыряетесь при мне?»

«Удивительны риторические вопросы Ткачева — мол, с какой стати я должен копаться в ваших грехах? Ах, о. Андрей, это ваша профессия. Вам за это деньги платят», — прокомментировал сию речь в своем блоге протодиакон Андрей Кураев.

«Ах любовь, ах мир! Содом и Гоморра — дело Божие»

Главной темой протоиерея Ткачева с первых дней на российской земле стала Украина.

Жесткую антиукраинскую позицию отец Андрей занял практически сразу после перехода в юрисдикцию РПЦ, ну а с началом СВО и вовсе переживает звездный час. Из self-made-иммигранта, принужденного годами доказывать собственную состоятельность, бывший львовский грузчик (а именно так начиналась его трудовая биография) Андрей Ткачев превратился в рупор пропаганды, умело используя собственный опыт украинской жизни как сильную сторону, маркер достоверности.

Он, мол, не со стороны клеймит, он — право имеет. И шокирующая кровожадность этим как бы оправдана в глазах паствы, привыкшей искать в христианстве проповедь мира и любви.

При этом в проповедях и роликах спецоперацию Ткачев называет тем самым словом, которое изобретательные протестующие тщетно камуфлируют звездочками и прочей «воблой».

С первых лет служения в РФ отец Андрей именовал УПЦ «несостоятельной, двусмысленной организацией», «отступниками из числа лжебратий», «скрытыми двуличными козлищами». «Отъехал на километр от границы — уже легче, на тысячу — совсем легко. Многие в России не до конца понимают, каким зачумленным местом стала эта земля, полная общерусских православных святынь. Там происходит настоящее коллективное беснование! Люди сошли с ума от своего безбожия».

25 февраля Ткачев выступил с программной проповедью, в которой заявил, что «*** не началась, а заканчивается, а кто этого не понимает, тот просто сволочь». Кабацкую риторику батюшка использует не только в студии, но и на амвоне.

Далее — после живописного рассказа о «беркутятах», которым восставшие на Майдане якобы с пяти метров стреляли в лицо из двустволок, — следует крайне изощренная отповедь тем, кто в церкви ищет любви Божией: «Ах любовь, ах мир! - They say. Правда серьезная, а мы пытаемся от нее любовью закрыться. Содом и Гоморра ( имеется в виду ветхозаветная легенда об истреблении городов. — Т. Б. ) — дело Божие. Как в фильме «Операция «Ы»: «Надо, Федя, надо».

Усомнившихся батюшка добил угрозой со ссылкой на личный опыт: «Если б они сюда зашли — резали бы нас с вами и кровью крыши мазали». Тут надо отметить некую противоречивость взглядов проповедника, еще недавно убеждавшего паству, что умирать надо с радостью и безропотно. Ну и точку поставил, авторитетно гарантировав, что Бог благословляет происходящее: «Ни на миллиметр Господь не отступил от людей своих и от церкви своей». Так уверенно толкует батюшка небесный промысел, будто убежден, что этого самого Бога он уж точно схватил за бороду. Для такой уверенности, кстати, в церковной традиции есть название.

Состояние, когда кажется, будто достиг таких духовных высот, что лично общаешься с ангелами, а то и выше, зовется прелестью — от слова лесть, неправда.

Собственную родину Ткачев клеймит теперь неустанно, называя основами украинской государственности Мазепу, Петлюру и Бандеру. В сентябре записывает ролик на украинском, правда, его речь числом грубых ошибок неуловимо напоминает многократно высмеянную манеру говорить бывшего киевского премьера Азарова. В этой странной видеопроповеди протоиерей милостиво обещает не воевать с украинским языком, церковью и культурой, а лишь только «с тем украинским, что стало американским», и предлагает украинцам стать в один строй с россиянами «против общего врага — всемирного капитала».

Замечу, хоть взгляды духовенства на СВО не отличаются единомыслием, но и самые лояльные государству проповедники, приветствуя военную операцию, тем не менее не столь восторженно говорят о кровопролитии и неизбежных жертвах.

Ткачев жжет глаголом, не отходя от «операционной» повестки, прерываясь разве что на клеймение геев и плевок на могилу только что похороненного Горбачева.

Реагирует протоиерей и на частичную мобилизацию, заявляя, что теперь ожидает всплеска религиозности и роста числа прихожан. И ловко интерпретирует тему затянувшихся боевых действий: оказывается, это у Бога были другие планы — чтоб народ проснулся.

Правда, и тут скатывается на любимую тему: «Призываю женщин отойти от зеркала и закрыть косметичку, одеть ( так в оригинале. — Т. Б.) платочек смиренней и посеменить в храмчик Божий».

Наконец Ткачев обнаруживает неожиданный образчик русскости в Рамзане Кадырове.

Он заявляет о принадлежности главы Чечни к русской цивилизации и непринадлежности к ней «пары сотен тысяч Ивановых-Петровых-Сидоровых», которые осуждают СВО, а значит, «скозлились» в край».

Шпана в рясе

Исследователи феномена проповедника замечают, что Ткачев — это индустрия. Колоссальный объем контента он публикует в соцсетях — и, кстати, является единственным российским священнослужителем, представленным на всех платформах, и единственным представителем РПЦ старшего поколения, заметным в «ТикТоке».

«Царьград», программа на «Спасе», до сотни печатных книг. Читаются, раскупаются. Большая часть, даже те, что выходили в украинский период, изданы в России. И когда только успевает? Все это не только безусловный личный ресурс, но и, очевидно, значительные организационные и финансовые вложения. Так что перемена участи и географии явно окупилась.

Коллеги по цеху отца Андрея Ткачева критиковали многократно. Основной повод — несдержанность проповедника в речах. Священник и публицист Яков Кротов в своей резкой манере назвал Ткачева «голосом необразованного, дико невежественного болота». Настоятель собора Александра Невского в Новосибирске Александр Новопашин окрестил язык Андрея Ткачева языком уличной шпаны: «Не только православный священник, не только православный человек, но просто даже вменяемый, более-менее культурный человек не позволит себе подобных высказываний, тем более публично».

А Дионисий Каменщиков, руководитель миссионерского отдела Саратовской епархии, по поводу манеры поведения протоиерея заметил:

«Один плохой священник, как говорили нам в семинарии, заменяет два института атеизма».

Однако дикие подчас высказывания священника не уменьшают его популярности. Филолог Андрей Десницкий по этому поводу замечает, что аудитория проповедника как раз и состоит в основном из женщин, которые грубость принимают за проявление силы — и в комментариях благодарят за уроки смирения. Так что любовь прихожанок к протоиерею, возможно, просто усвоенный за годы несчастливой жизни извечный российский стереотип: «Бьет — значит, любит».

Женщины, годами ждавшие брутального грубоватого Гошу из оскароносного меньшовского фильма, все еще готовы как должное принимать оскорбления с амвона, трибуны или экрана. Заметим, именно прихожанки — главные ежедневные спонсоры любого российского храма. Эпатажный мачизм, транслируемый властью или пастырем, они равно принимают и в ответ готовы на жертвы.

Сам же Ткачев, раз за разом тиражирующий приемы хамской риторики, возможно, становится пленником аудитории, когда границы приспособления миссионера к пастве вовсе исчезают. Особенно, если главные адресаты посланий — все же не обычные прихожанки, а еще и облеченные властью граждане, которым так нравится выражение «мочить в сортире» и анекдоты про «бабушку и дедушку».

Что до «Жириновского в рясе», имидж проповедника действительно отсылает к образу покойного лидера ЛДПР: оба выступали согласно с генеральной линией власти, но довели ее в своих речах до такого абсурда, что на фоне этого словесного фонтана менее экстремальные людоеды кажутся публике вполне вменяемыми спикерами.