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I. VIDEOS IN
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- VE-5. RUSSIA: BEAUTIFUL and FAITHFUL
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- TIME: 43 mins. 1998. ISBN 1881211-51-7
PRICE: $24.95
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DESCRIPTION:
- You will be uplifted by the power of the beauty and faith of Russia portrayed
here! This beautiful video weaves together a tapestry of visual and auditory
impressions of a few aspects of beautiful and faithful Russia, while demonstrating the
vital role that beauty plays in the Russian (Orthodox) experience. Different types
and styles of beautiful music - liturgical, classical and folk - are perfectly wedded with
the different types and styles of the visual images. The narration is kept to a
minimum, so that the viewer may more fully focus on the beauty of the music and the
accompanying visual images. The Russians' vigorous love of beauty and love of
creating beauty are inseparable from their Orthodox Faith, and is most
eloquently
communicated in their churches and public worship.
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 | Six aspects of Russian beauty and faith are depicted: |
| (1) the natural beauty of the Russian countryside, animals and children [5 mins.];
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| (2) civil and palace architecture and decoration in the urban imperial style [5 mins.];
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| (3) wooden domestic architecture [2 mins.], and |
| (4) wooden church architecture [3½ mins.], in the Russian rural folk style;
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| (5) masonry church architecture [13½ mins.], showing extensive views of interiors and
exteriors of five functioning churches and monasteries, including, St. Tikhon's Monastery
in Zadonsk, and two incredibly magnificent, little-known cathedrals in the provincial
cities of Kursk and Yelets; and |
| (6) two short excerpts of Russian Orthodox Divine Services [8 mins.], in Moscow and in
the provincial city of Voronezh. Nothing better expresses the deep love of beauty
and the Faith of the Russian people, than such glorious splendor of heavenly worship,
where, briefly, one may experience heaven on earth. |
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