Russia, Orthodox Christian again ... completed in 2009,
the Cathedral of the Nativity of Our Lady of the Conception within the Zachatyevsky Stauropegic Convent in Moscow
Собор Рождества Пресвятой Богородицы, Зачатьевский Ставропигиальный Женский Монастырь в Москве

Троица, 1411 год или 1425 - 1427 — Troitsa, icon written in 1411 or 1425 - 1427

Андрей Рублёв - Andrei Rublyov (* c. 1360 - 29 I 1430 †)

Архангельск –Arkhangelsk

There is something seriously defective in any Descendant of European Christendom who does not love Russia.

Новодевичий Богородице-Смоленский монастырь

Novodevichy Convent Bogoroditse — Smolensky Monastery, founded in 1524 by Grand Prince Vasili III of Moscow in commemoration of the Conquest of Smolensk in 1514.

And as a curious note, the Siege of Smolensk in 1514 was but a small part of that civil war of European Christendom, one of countless, called the Moscovite-Lithuanian Wars, and these began in 1492. 1492 was an especially busy year for Christendom. Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, yes, but it was also the year in which the Reconquista was crowned with its final success, if such matters can ever be said to be final. With the fall of the Islamic state of Granada on 2 January 1492, the Muslim invasion of the Iberian Peninsula 781 years earlier, in 711, was brought to an end. Of course in recent decades the political leadership of the European Union and Spain in particular is struggling mightily to reverse the Muslim reverses, allowing and encouraging mass immigration of everybody other than the Descendants of European Christendom into European Christendom, with Muslims granted special places of honor in these processes, Muslims and Jews. And this latter reminds one of another watershed event of 1492, the Edict of Expulsion, the Alhambra Decree of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon of 31 March 1492 ordering the expulsion of Jews by 31 July 1492. This decree was not formally revoked until 1968, under the influence of the Second Vatican Council, and now in the year 2014 Spain wants to encourage and honor and recompense Jews by offering them citizenship of Spain (allowing them to retain also their present citizenship) if only they satisfy absurdly conceived criteria of proof of decent via surname, language or other evidence. In other words, the offer is open to any Jew, so any Jew can now have European Union citizenship and unlimited access and right of movement and permanent residency and work permission and all the rest, rights denied to Canadian, Argentinian, American, Australian, Ukrainian and of course Russian Christians who are the Descendants of European Christendom and the rightful members and owners of European Christendom. Perhaps Spain's Justice Minister, Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón, rather than making himself an archenemy of European Christendom and his own country Spain, should rather have directed his talents, if any, to solving Spain's problems of a 25.1% unemployment rate (April 2014) and much more cataclysmic still a 1.36 births per woman fertility rate (circa 2.1 births per woman is replacement), joint gifts to European Christendom of the Second Vatican Council and the enormously increased prominence and influence of the atheist Jews from 1968 (or rather 1964/5) to the present.

Returning to Moscow and to Novodevichy, elsewhere we will have a look at some of the ways that this special place has been honored by Christian disunity and infighting at the rise in prominence and power of those peoples who have chosen hostility to Christianity and to Christendom.

... Trophies, painting by Vereshchagin