A Veil over Trinity
11 hrs. 40 min.
Description
We have always been taught that Orthodoxy is obedience and humility. That’s how later chroniclers shaped our religion—but that doesn’t mean the presented version matches reality. A huge number of Orthodox saints depicted with weapons in their hands doesn’t fit universal meekness, submissiveness, harmlessness—and implies a more militant history of the Orthodox Church than the one we’re used to reading about in textbooks.
“Give me, Father, two ‘éter’ monks, the warlord from your monk troop,” Dmitry Donskoy asked Sergius of Radonezh. Peresvet and Oslyabya are not simply monks; they are commanders, and the place of their service is specified concretely and unambiguously. “These are your armories…” Sergius of Radonezh said to Dmitry Donskoy about Peresvet and Oslyabya. After reading these words of the revered man, I decided that I would write about them and their followers as about the squires of the Russian land…
“Give me, Father, two ‘éter’ monks, the warlord from your monk troop,” Dmitry Donskoy asked Sergius of Radonezh. Peresvet and Oslyabya are not simply monks; they are commanders, and the place of their service is specified concretely and unambiguously. “These are your armories…” Sergius of Radonezh said to Dmitry Donskoy about Peresvet and Oslyabya. After reading these words of the revered man, I decided that I would write about them and their followers as about the squires of the Russian land…
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