Easter Week in Moscow (1943)

Description: Metropolitan Nikolai of Kiev and Galicia performs the service in the Cathedral of the Transfiguration. He reads the epistle of Patriarch Sergei calling on all Orthodox believers to support the Soviet war effort.

Source:Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000)

1943

900 Days Battle of Kursk The Cult of Leadership Deportation of Minorities End of the Comintern Epaulettes Back on Uniforms Holocaust Katyn Forest Massacre Love and Romance in War The Nazi Tide Stops New National Anthem Orthodox Patriarch Appointed Partisans in the Forest The Strange Alliance The Vlasov Movement Wartime Evacuation Women in War Films