Ukrainian passion around the memory of Prince Vladimir the Great
On Monday in Kiev, vandals desecrated the monument to the Baptist of Rus - Prince Vladimir the Great. Unknowns poured red paint over the monument. The sculpture itself, the pedestal, the name plate and even the adjoining platform were soiled. On this fact, law enforcement agencies of the Ukrainian capital opened a criminal case under the article “Hooliganism”, implying a wide range of punishments - from a fine to five years in prison.
"Vinnitsa" prevailed over the Prince
The monument to Prince Vladimir the Great is not just a famous postcard view of Kiev. Shot up to a height of twenty meters on the steep bank of the Dnieper in the park, the Vladimirskaya Gorka monument became a sacred symbol of the Ukrainian capital, Russian Orthodox. It was opened in 1853 year. The works of Peter Klodt (he carved a four-meter statue of Prince Vladimir), Alexander Ton (built a 16-meter pedestal) and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky (author of the bas-reliefs) the monument became such a significant Russian event stories and cultures that survived even the Soviet hard times.
The Bolshevik activists tried, however, to remove religious ornaments from the pedestal. But for the 100 anniversary, the monument was restored, returning the original look and meaning to it. In 1988, the monument to Prince Vladimir the Great even got on the Soviet jubilee coin on the occasion of the 1000 anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. What is natural. After all, the Grand Duke Vladimir made a civilization turn in Russia, which determined the cultural and political development of Russian society for a millennium.
In the new independent Ukraine, Vladimir the Great was revered. However, the homegrown Kiev historians did not forget to recall that Vladimir, in general, the prince of Novgorod, and the Kiev throne, he seized by force. In the face of growing confrontation with Russia, this fact encouraged local nationalists, for whom there was not and there is no figure in the Ukrainian history more significant than Stepan Bandera.
Russia also added pepper to the overheated cauldron of ambition and emotion. More than once or twice she reminded everyone that the Russian world has common saints and common creators. When the fourth generation rocket strategic submarine “Prince Vladimir” was laid in Severodvinsk in the summer of 2012, Ukrainian media reported that the new ship was named not in the name of Prince Baptist Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, but only in honor of the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin who participated in the ceremony bookmarks submarine cruiser.
Ukrainians will return to this parallel quite recently, and in a most unexpected way. At the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolaev, shipbuilders have been building a promising Ukrainian corvette of the 58250 project for five years. This surface ship is ten times smaller than our submarine cruiser, but there was practically its namesake - “Vladimir the Great”.
While on the corvette about 40% of the volume of work. Given the difficult financial situation of Ukraine, no one even forecasts when the new ship will fill up the Ukrainian fleet. But at the suggestion of the mayor of Vinnitsa, Vladimir Savelyev, passions flared up around the name of the corvette.
One morning, Mayor Savelyev suddenly came to the conclusion that the name of the future ship was a nod of Nikolaev shipbuilders to the head of the neighboring “aggressor state” - Vladimir Putin. The scandal broke serious. Vinnitsa in Ukraine today. Even more than the Solntsevo nineties in Moscow. The morning delirium of Mayor Savelyev in Kiev was taken seriously, and the corvette was promised a new name - “Vinnitsa”.
Russia to the load with Ukraine
Meanwhile, another prominent native of Vinnytsia, President Petro Poroshenko, is trying to build a Ukrainian identity on the name of the Grand Duke, to make new political calculations. In 2015, Petro Poroshenko signed a decree “On honoring the memory of Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great - the creator of the medieval European state“ Russia - Ukraine ”. The decree is actually crafty. There is not so much praise to the Grand Duke, as an attempt to legally legitimize the concept of the existence of the state of "Rus-Ukraine".
For the first time, the version that the Kiev Grand Prince Vladimir 1000 years ago created the Rus-Ukraine state was proposed by the Ukrainian historian Mikhail Hrushevsky. It was at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hrushevsky was delivered at that time by the eight-monograph “History of Ukraine-Russia”. The scientific world did not support the concept of the Lviv professor, because at the time of the prince-baptist there was no trace of Ukraine. Now the new Kiev authorities are trying to give the controversial historical work the highest sovereign meaning.
Not yet. At least, the followers of the case of Stepan Bandera were skeptical about "honoring the memory of Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great" and instead defiled the monument to the prince, filling it with paint. Many people associate this act of vandalism in Kiev with Bandera and even give a logical explanation.
14 September, the 112 channel decided to identify the most prominent statesman of Ukraine and began a month-long survey. A decade later, on the TV channel’s website, five leaders emerged: Vladimir the Great (36,5%), Stepan Bandera (21,9%), Bogdan Khmelnitsky (17%), Yaroslav the Wise (8,2%), Vyacheslav Chernovil (5,8%).
Probably, someone experienced a culture shock when he saw political pygmies — Bandera and Chernovil — among truly outstanding statesmen. In Bandera too shock (as shown by comments on social networks), but rather, a sincere anger at the fact that their idol seriously loses the legendary prince. After all, this public is taking the most active part in the project of the TV channel and is actively trying to influence the voting results, massively involving supporters of Bandera in the poll. Vladimir the Great has so far resisted under aggressive pressure, for which he received a portion of blood-red paint.
Not just today in Ukraine and followers of the Prince-Baptist. It is known that under the new Kiev authorities dozens of Orthodox churches were destroyed here, priests died. On the day when the monument to Prince Vladimir was desecrated, Konotop attacked the participants of the congress of the Union of Orthodox Women.
On Monday, the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
reported that in the Konotop branch of the European University, where participants were registered, they found an explosive device. Who wished the death of courageous women will become clear very soon.
Fifteen representatives of the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian Cossacks tumbled into the university’s assembly hall. They blocked the premises and were not allowed to hold a congress here. The event was transferred to the city church in honor of All Saints. There, women prayed for peace in Ukraine, for the Orthodox land to survive the stagnation, and people survive.
This belief, introduced into the consciousness and culture of people by Prince Vladimir the Great, today remains the backbone of those who have not come to terms with the dictates of marginal temporary workers, who believe in the future of the Russian world and draw their strength from the truth of the past.
"Vinnitsa" prevailed over the Prince
The monument to Prince Vladimir the Great is not just a famous postcard view of Kiev. Shot up to a height of twenty meters on the steep bank of the Dnieper in the park, the Vladimirskaya Gorka monument became a sacred symbol of the Ukrainian capital, Russian Orthodox. It was opened in 1853 year. The works of Peter Klodt (he carved a four-meter statue of Prince Vladimir), Alexander Ton (built a 16-meter pedestal) and Vasily Demuth-Malinovsky (author of the bas-reliefs) the monument became such a significant Russian event stories and cultures that survived even the Soviet hard times.
The Bolshevik activists tried, however, to remove religious ornaments from the pedestal. But for the 100 anniversary, the monument was restored, returning the original look and meaning to it. In 1988, the monument to Prince Vladimir the Great even got on the Soviet jubilee coin on the occasion of the 1000 anniversary of the Baptism of Russia. What is natural. After all, the Grand Duke Vladimir made a civilization turn in Russia, which determined the cultural and political development of Russian society for a millennium.
In the new independent Ukraine, Vladimir the Great was revered. However, the homegrown Kiev historians did not forget to recall that Vladimir, in general, the prince of Novgorod, and the Kiev throne, he seized by force. In the face of growing confrontation with Russia, this fact encouraged local nationalists, for whom there was not and there is no figure in the Ukrainian history more significant than Stepan Bandera.
Russia also added pepper to the overheated cauldron of ambition and emotion. More than once or twice she reminded everyone that the Russian world has common saints and common creators. When the fourth generation rocket strategic submarine “Prince Vladimir” was laid in Severodvinsk in the summer of 2012, Ukrainian media reported that the new ship was named not in the name of Prince Baptist Vladimir Svyatoslavovich, but only in honor of the current President of Russia Vladimir Putin who participated in the ceremony bookmarks submarine cruiser.
Ukrainians will return to this parallel quite recently, and in a most unexpected way. At the Black Sea Shipyard in Nikolaev, shipbuilders have been building a promising Ukrainian corvette of the 58250 project for five years. This surface ship is ten times smaller than our submarine cruiser, but there was practically its namesake - “Vladimir the Great”.
While on the corvette about 40% of the volume of work. Given the difficult financial situation of Ukraine, no one even forecasts when the new ship will fill up the Ukrainian fleet. But at the suggestion of the mayor of Vinnitsa, Vladimir Savelyev, passions flared up around the name of the corvette.
One morning, Mayor Savelyev suddenly came to the conclusion that the name of the future ship was a nod of Nikolaev shipbuilders to the head of the neighboring “aggressor state” - Vladimir Putin. The scandal broke serious. Vinnitsa in Ukraine today. Even more than the Solntsevo nineties in Moscow. The morning delirium of Mayor Savelyev in Kiev was taken seriously, and the corvette was promised a new name - “Vinnitsa”.
Russia to the load with Ukraine
Meanwhile, another prominent native of Vinnytsia, President Petro Poroshenko, is trying to build a Ukrainian identity on the name of the Grand Duke, to make new political calculations. In 2015, Petro Poroshenko signed a decree “On honoring the memory of Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great - the creator of the medieval European state“ Russia - Ukraine ”. The decree is actually crafty. There is not so much praise to the Grand Duke, as an attempt to legally legitimize the concept of the existence of the state of "Rus-Ukraine".
For the first time, the version that the Kiev Grand Prince Vladimir 1000 years ago created the Rus-Ukraine state was proposed by the Ukrainian historian Mikhail Hrushevsky. It was at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Hrushevsky was delivered at that time by the eight-monograph “History of Ukraine-Russia”. The scientific world did not support the concept of the Lviv professor, because at the time of the prince-baptist there was no trace of Ukraine. Now the new Kiev authorities are trying to give the controversial historical work the highest sovereign meaning.
Not yet. At least, the followers of the case of Stepan Bandera were skeptical about "honoring the memory of Prince of Kiev Vladimir the Great" and instead defiled the monument to the prince, filling it with paint. Many people associate this act of vandalism in Kiev with Bandera and even give a logical explanation.
14 September, the 112 channel decided to identify the most prominent statesman of Ukraine and began a month-long survey. A decade later, on the TV channel’s website, five leaders emerged: Vladimir the Great (36,5%), Stepan Bandera (21,9%), Bogdan Khmelnitsky (17%), Yaroslav the Wise (8,2%), Vyacheslav Chernovil (5,8%).
Probably, someone experienced a culture shock when he saw political pygmies — Bandera and Chernovil — among truly outstanding statesmen. In Bandera too shock (as shown by comments on social networks), but rather, a sincere anger at the fact that their idol seriously loses the legendary prince. After all, this public is taking the most active part in the project of the TV channel and is actively trying to influence the voting results, massively involving supporters of Bandera in the poll. Vladimir the Great has so far resisted under aggressive pressure, for which he received a portion of blood-red paint.
Not just today in Ukraine and followers of the Prince-Baptist. It is known that under the new Kiev authorities dozens of Orthodox churches were destroyed here, priests died. On the day when the monument to Prince Vladimir was desecrated, Konotop attacked the participants of the congress of the Union of Orthodox Women.
On Monday, the press service of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate
reported that in the Konotop branch of the European University, where participants were registered, they found an explosive device. Who wished the death of courageous women will become clear very soon.
Fifteen representatives of the Azov Regiment and the Ukrainian Cossacks tumbled into the university’s assembly hall. They blocked the premises and were not allowed to hold a congress here. The event was transferred to the city church in honor of All Saints. There, women prayed for peace in Ukraine, for the Orthodox land to survive the stagnation, and people survive.
This belief, introduced into the consciousness and culture of people by Prince Vladimir the Great, today remains the backbone of those who have not come to terms with the dictates of marginal temporary workers, who believe in the future of the Russian world and draw their strength from the truth of the past.
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