Iconostasis Installation in the newly built Archangel Michael Cathedral

Arkhangelsk • September, 20, 2011

In September of 2011 the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation started works on installation of iconostasis in the Archangel Michael Cathedral which is currently under construction. The project is carried out with the blessing of Bishop Daniil of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory within programs of the Foundation aimed at helping the Russian Orthodox Church.

Phantom of the Opera

is making progress

Sergey Moskalkov, a soloist of the Bolshoi Theatre, a soloist and art manager of the Russkaya Opera Theatre, expresses his view of the project participants’ singing.

The project is quite unusual for our TV: pop stars rehash classical arias. It aroused mixed feelings among operatic professionals. In general the jury approves of stars’ singing, and professionals who stayed out of the project only criticize them or just laugh.

You can find more on this topic at the website of the Russkaya Opera Theatre:

http://rus-opera.ru/index.php/ru/2010-05-17-09-21-41/2010-05-17-09-40-02/2011

THE RUSSKAYA OPERA THEATRE

Looking for a Prima Donna Theatrical & Musical Project

The Russkaya Opera Theatre presents to public attention a unique theatrical & musical project called Looking for a Prima Donna which is held within OPERA PLUS cycle.

Voyage on Siberia’s rivers

• July 2011

From June 17^th to July 4^th, 2011, the delegation of the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Charitable Foundation voyaged the Siberian rivers Ob and Irtysh in the Mekhanik Kalashnikov steam-ship. The action was made within the frameworks of the Slavic Cross Procession program which has been implementing for 7 years under the direction and with the blessing of His Eminence Dimitry, the Archbishop of Tobolsk and Tyumen.

The 'Honor And Valour' All-Russian Action

Khabarovsk • July 8^th 2011

For many years the Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker Foundation closely co-operates with the Russian Council of Veterans of the Law-Enforcement Bodies and Internal Military Forces. For example, annually, our charitable organization supports the Honour and Valour All-Russian Action, patronazed by the Council of Veterans.

On Charity

"Provide yourselves bags which wax not old,

a treasure in the heavens that faileth not,

where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth".

The Gospel according to St. Luke (12: 33).

Charity as a property of human soul and philanthropy as an aspect of a person's behavior are settled on the religious, primarily, Christian foundation. In the times of theomachism these things were by all means kept close from the Russians, the very idea of philanthropy, in fact, was under a secret ban. Thus, in the four-volume "Russian Explanatory Dictionary", published in 1935-40 under the editorship of the USSR Academy of Sciences corresponding member, D. N. Oushakov, the Charity notion was interpreted as 'rendering material aid to the poor', with the bashful note in brackets - 'archaic'.

Акафист Святителю Николаю Чудотворцу

Кондак 1

Возбранный Чудотворче и изрядный угодниче Христов, миру всему источаяй многоценное милости миро, и неисчерпаемое чудес море, восхваляю тя любовию, Святителю Николае: ты же яко имеяй дерзновение ко Господу, от всяких мя бед свободи, да зову ти:
Радуйся, Николае, великий Чудотворче.