The sight of Peter - St. Isaac's Cathedral

Not before the 14th (old, just the first of March) - and the first drop, and the arrival of rooks ... Same with other times of the year. And the descent of the heavenly fire of grace on our Orthodox Easter, and not on the Catholic, does not convince, is not this a decisive argument? After all, now this great mystery of the television company is shown live! But you still don't understand... Moreover, we have “reformers” – politicians who call on the Russian Orthodox Church to abandon its calendar: “Let’s celebrate Christmas together with the West.” It will be so good, no confusion! The confusion is in their heads... Even devastation in the heads, according to the apt expression of Professor Preobrazhensky from Bulgakov’s “Heart of a Dog”.

My beloved Ivan Alekseevich Bunin remembered here again because in his autobiographical novel “The Life of Arsenyev” there are such remarkable lines about his childhood, about his first trip to the county city of Yelets, famous for its churches: “...the ringing, the hum of bells from the bell tower of Michael the Archangel, towering above everything in its grandeur, in luxury, which the Roman temple of Peter never dreamed, and its hromada, which could not then hit me with the pyramid of Cheops.”

I did not actually see churches until I was seventeen, when I was a student in St. Petersburg, because the last church in our district, where I was baptized in infancy, was soon destroyed by the infamous Khrushchev directive regarding the church: “Soon we will show the last priest on TV!” And I will never forget how excited, delighted and joyful I approached the majestic St. Isaac’s Cathedral. Later I learned that the cathedral was consecrated in honor of Isaac of Dalmatia, the patron saint of Peter the Great, and that it was built for forty years (1818-1858) and occupies the fourth largest in the world, second only to St. Peter’s Cathedral in Rome, as well as St. Paul’s Cathedral in London and St. Mary’s Cathedral in Florence.

That's the size. The uniqueness of the architectural structure (marshland In addition, in all its amazing composition and harmony - in my opinion, in the first. Isaac is very decorated with 112 monolithic granite columns – which simply have no analogues in the world. At the same time, both slender and powerful, amazingly beautiful columns are especially good in winter, when from afar they glow in the lightest pearl frost.