Heavenly patron of the Bulgarian-Russian friendship

25 February 2016 of the year, with the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill and at the invitation of His Holiness the Patriarch Bulgarian Neophyte, a delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church arrived in the Bulgarian capital Sofia. Russian confessors came to Sofia for celebrations on the occasion of the glorification in the face of the saints of St. Seraphim (Sobolev, 1881 — 1950, Archbishop of Bogucharsky and the wonderworker Sophia). For the first time in a millennial stories the two sister Orthodox churches, Bulgarian and Russian, they together recognized and glorified the common saint.

Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) during his ministry in Sofia

Orthodoxy is the cornerstone of Russian civilization. At the end of the 10th century, Vladimir I Svyatoslavich, Prince of Novgorod (970 — 988), and the Grand Duke of Kiev (978 — 1015) realized that it was impossible to create a solid state system based on scattered cults of individual tribes. The pagan pantheon could not unite the peoples of ancient Russia. Prince Vladimir studied in detail the religious systems of Islam, Roman Catholicism and Judaism, and rejected all of them. He chose to be baptized for himself and all of Russia from the Constantinople Orthodox Church of Byzantium.

Today, it is possible to have a different attitude to religion in general and to Orthodoxy in particular. But it must always be remembered that the denial of Orthodoxy amounts to the destruction of the foundations of the Russian world. Moreover, modern Russia has no other ideology that even comes close to Orthodoxy in terms of its distribution and influence in the world.

The activity of the modern Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) goes far beyond the walls of parish churches in villages where old women who live their lives pray to God. The ever-memorable Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, back in the middle of 1990, understood the end of the flirting of Russian liberals with the supposedly peace-loving and inclined to “dialogue” by the West. The patriarch was a wise man and did not impose his point of view on politicians, frightening them with all earthly and heavenly punishments. In 1995, the city of Alexy II foresightedly created the “International Public Foundation for the Unity of Orthodox Peoples”.

9 March 2016 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill has already headed the 16-th annual ceremony of awarding prizes to the International Foundation for Unity of Orthodox Peoples for 2015 year. The prizes of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church were His Holiness Patriarch Neofit, President of the Republic of Serbia Tomislav Nikolic and Chairman of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Sergey Evgenievich Naryshkin.

During trials and threats, when many former friends began to look at Russia as a wolf, the ROC does everything to maintain normal friendly relations with Bulgaria and Serbia. The Bulgarian patriarch Neofit was elected in 2013, and in March 2016 arrived in Russia for the third time. His Holiness is a great and sincere friend of Russia since his time at the Moscow Theological Academy. An important contribution of His Holiness Patriarch Neophytos to the development of Bulgarian-Russian relations was the joint glorification in the face of the saints by the Archbishop of Bogucharsky and the wonderworker of Sophia Seraphim (Sobolev), due to the efforts of not only the Russian, but also the Bulgarian side.

The enemies of Russia and Orthodoxy perceived the glorification of St. Seraphim as the ghoul "perceives" an aspen stake in his rotten and dead heart. And the ghouls jarred recognition from the Bulgarian, not from the Russian side. In the modern Orthodox calendar there are over 5000 saints, 2575 of whom are Russian or glorified by the Russian Orthodox Church. One more or less - what's the difference for heretics and Satanists?

But, after all, Bulgaria has been a NATO member since 2004 and the European Union since 2007. In 2016, NATO and the EU imposed sanctions on Russia like flags on a wolf. Suddenly, the BOC recognizes the Russian saint as its own! At the ceremony together with the ROC! Before all honest people! This is not some rating of the month or year, but a choice for centuries and millennia. For the time being, the BOC, St. Seraphim, the Archbishop of Bogucharsky and the Wonderworker Sophia will be on her calendar, and it cannot be erased from there by any means. How can liberals not be upset ?!

In Bulgaria, another formidable Russophobic and anti-Orthodox campaign began. Enemies called St. Seraphim "a KGB agent" (although he died in 4 before 13 in March 1954, when the Committee was founded), a "splitter" and in general "the worst enemy of the Bulgarian people." Following the holy archbishop and the wonderworker, the liberals barked at the Bulgarian clergy and church hierarchs, calling them "agents of Moscow" and the new-fashioned anti-Orthodox nickname "pop colonels" (as if hinting at their imaginary cooperation with the lieutenant colonel of state security). And finally, the duty refrain against Russia in general, Putin in particular, and for the company and for a change this time - Sergey Naryshkin.

The host of the program “Faith and Society” on the First Channel of the Bulgarian National Television (BNT) Goran Blagoev especially overdid it. For many years he has been conducting anti-Orthodox and ecumenical (globalist movement in the Church) propaganda, hiding under the guise of the so-called. pluralism (diversity) and freedom of opinion. The glorification of the Russian saint so embittered him that he threw off all the masks and slipped to completely inappropriate expressions on the national broadcast of BNT. The result of this behavior was the decision of the Holy Synod of the BOC to no longer bless the hierarchs and clerics of the BOC to speak with Goran Blagoev. Now the program on faith on the only state-run television channel in Bulgaria has been left without representatives of the official Bulgarian Orthodox Church.

Two thousand years ago, the devil tempted Jesus Christ. Having set him up on a high mountain, the devil showed him all the kingdoms of the universe in an instant of time, and the devil said to him: I will give you power over all these [kingdoms] and their glory, for she is devoted to me, and to whom I want, I give it; so if you worship me, everything will be yours. Jesus answered and said to him: Get behind me, Satan; It is written: Worship the Lord your God, and serve Him only.

Today, such power is given to the rulers of the New World Order. Anyone who worships them is ensured a comfortable existence. But only cattle can be happy with one trough and stable. The bishops, priests and monks of the BOC, and all honest Orthodox and Slavic Bulgarian people chose the way through thorns to the stars, along with their Russian brothers in Christ.

The beginning of the solemn procession of the lithium on the occasion of the glorification of St. Seraphim Bogucharsky


The march was attended by history buffs in the form of Bulgarian militias and a Russian general from the times of the Russian-Turkish liberation war of 1877-78.


Bulgarian hierarchs and priests are included in the cathedral Patriarchal Cathedral of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church - the Memorial Church of St. Alexander Nevsky


Bishops and priests in the church of St. Alexander Nevsky


His Holiness Patriarch Bulgarian Neophyte



St. Nicholas Cathedral in Sofia - Russian Embassy Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

 "The Life of St. Seraphim (Sobolev) - Archbishop of Bogucharsk and Wonderworker of Sophia"

Nikolai Borisovich Sobolev, the future Archbishop Seraphim, was born in the city of Ryazan December 1 (old style) 1881, in the family of tradesman Boris Matveyevich Sobolev and his wife Maria Nikolaevna. The Sobolev family had 12 children, seven of whom died in childhood and adolescence. Nikolay Sobolev was the tenth child in the family.

A big test for the Sobolev family was the sudden illness of Boris Matveyevich. When Nicholas was six years old, his father suffered a stroke, and 14 was bedridden until his death. The situation in the family was imbued with the spirit of prayer and deep awareness of God's Providence in a person’s life.

In 1894, Nikolai Sobolev was admitted to the second class of the Ryazan Theological School, then he graduated from the Ryazan Theological Seminary and in 1904, he entered the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. During the years of study, the future archpastor repeatedly visited the righteous John of Kronstadt, as well as the elder of the Gethsemane hermitage Isidore (Georgian-Kozin). Nikolai Sobolev also became close with Archimandrite Feofan (Bystrov) - inspector of the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, a strict monk and a prayer book.

26 January 1908, Nikolai Sobolev, as a student at the 4 Academy course, was tonsured as a monk under the name Seraphim. 3 / 16 February 1908, the monk Seraphim was ordained by Bishop Sergius (Tikhomirov) as a hierodeacon, and 18 / 31 of March - as a hieromonk. In the autumn of 1908, Hieromonk Seraphim defended his thesis at the Department of Moral Theology, "The Doctrine of Humility after Compassion."

In 1908, Hieromonk Seraphim began teaching at the Pastoral Theological School. In December 1911, Father Seraphim was appointed inspector of the Kostroma Theological School. 22 December 1912, hieromonk Seraphim was appointed rector of the Voronezh Theological Seminary with the elevation of archimandrite.

In Voronezh, Archimandrite Seraphim found revolution and civil war. In March 1918, the seminary was closed by the Bolshevik government, its building was occupied by the Red Army. Archimandrite Seraphim moved to the monastery of St. Tikhon of Zadonsk.

In the first half of October 1919, the troops of General A.I. Denikin took Voronezh, but soon they were forced to retreat. Archimandrite Seraphim did not know how to act - go to the south or stay in Voronezh. For advice, Father Seraphim turned to paralyzed old man Aaron, who lived not far from Voronezh. “Do not worry, you will get into a good side,” said the elder about the further fate of Archimandrite Seraphim. “How can I understand your words?” Asked the archimandrite. “If you fall, you will know,” was the answer of the old man. Archimandrite Seraphim and his brother, Hieromonk Sergius, left Voronezh at the last moment in an open carriage with coal for a steam locomotive.

In the south of Russia, Archimandrite Seraphim came under the subordination of the temporarily independent Supreme Church Administration (VTSU), formed for the independent solution of urgent and important issues. 7 May 1920, Archimandrite Seraphim was appointed rector of the seminary in Simferopol.

24 September 1920, the Supreme Council of Ukraine decides to ordain Archimandrite Seraphim as Bishop of Lubensky, Vicar of the Poltava Diocese. This definition was signed by the ruling bishop of the Tauride Diocese, Archbishop Dimitry (Abashidze), the ruling bishop of the Poltava Diocese, Archbishop Feofan (Bystrov), Bishop of Sevastopol Veniamin (Fedchenkov) and secretary EI Makharoblidze. October 14 in Simferopol Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Archimandrite Seraphim was ordained bishop. The consecration of hierarchs led by Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) made the ordination. However, soon, in view of the entry of Bolsheviks into the Crimea, General Wrangel ordered an evacuation, and Bishop Seraphim left the native land along with the remnants of the White Army and the refugees.

In the spring of 1921, Archbishop Eulogius (Georgievsky), manager of Russian parishes in Western Europe, appointed Bishop Seraphim as head of St. Nicholas Church in Sofia. 31 August 1921 was appointed by the Higher Church Authority Abroad to appoint Bishop Seraphim to govern the Russian Orthodox communities in Bulgaria. Patriarch Tikhon recognized the episcopal consecration of Bishop Seraphim and his appointment to Bulgaria, which is confirmed by the lists of legal hierarchs who were secretly sent abroad from Moscow. In 1921, St. Tikhon changed the title of bishop Seraphim to Bogucharsky.

Until the end of his days, Bishop Seraphim remained at the post of manager of Russian parishes in Bulgaria, first in the jurisdiction of the Russian Church Abroad, then in the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate. The place of service of Bishop Seraphim was the Church of St. Nicholas on the boulevard of Tsar Liberator. In addition to this church, several parishes and the Spassky (Alexander Nevsky) monastery in Yambol were subordinate to Bishop Seraphim.

In 1921, a fraternity was formed at the Nikolsky Church, which took care of the material support of the disabled parishioners. The archpastor also organized a committee to collect assistance in support of the Russian monks of Athos, who after the revolution were in dire straits, oppressed by the Greek government and often starved.

Severe disease (tuberculosis) did not prevent Bishop Seraphim from regularly conducting worship services. The archpastor religiously served on all Sundays and public holidays, and on Thursdays read the akathist to St. Nicholas. Vladyka Seraphim paid much attention to the church choir. As a result, the choir during his lifetime became one of the best in Bulgaria.

In 1934, Bulgaria established diplomatic relations with the Soviet state. The Russian churches in Bulgaria came under the authority of the Bulgarian Church, which allocated other premises to the Russian community. The arrival of St. Nicholas Church on the Tsar Liberator Boulevard was transferred to St. Nicholas Church on Kaloyan Street. For ten years, this temple became the site of the main ministry of Vladyka Seraphim.

In 1934, the Bishops' Council of the Russian Church Abroad elevated Bishop Seraphim to the rank of archbishop. However, the high rank has changed little in his life. The Archbishop, together with his brother, Archimandrite Sergius, rented a very modest and deprived elementary amenities apartment on Veliko Tarnovo Street. The archpastor generally tried to avoid luxury and addiction to things. He said: “Things burden me. They are a burden to the soul. ”

From 1920 to 1945, Archbishop Seraphim was subordinate to the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (Russian Church Abroad, ROCOR). At the same time, Vladyka Seraphim was far from extremes and kept the Foreign Synod from taking radical steps. So, in 1926, he opposed replacing the catechism of St. Philaret with the catechism of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky). The hierarch declared that the Foreign Synod could not assume such authority without the permission of the All-Russian Church. In the same year when the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR began to take steps in favor of recognizing the autocephaly of the Polish Church, Archbishop Feofan (Bystrov) and Bishop Seraphim declared that without the will of the Moscow church authorities, the Synod of Bishops did not have that right.

Like most foreign bishops, Archbishop Seraphim perceived the "Declaration" of Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) negatively. But disagreement with Metropolitan Sergius did not lead the archpastor to extremes. So, in the middle of the 1930-s, Archbishop Seraphim sent his book “The New Teaching on Sophia the Wisdom of God” to Metropolitan Sergius. Vladyka said to the spiritual children that he had no right to condemn Metropolitan Sergius, who found himself in conditions of terrible persecution.

In 1920-1940, Archbishop Seraphim spoke out against controversial views that penetrated the works of Metropolitan Anthony (Khrapovitsky) and Archpriest Sergius Bulgakov. 1 January 1938 for the essay "New Teaching on Sophia the Wisdom of God" he was awarded the degree of Master of Theology.

The hierarch paid attention to the issue of the state structure of Russia. To this question he devoted the book "Russian ideology" and "On the true monarchical worldview." The basis of the welfare of the state Archbishop Seraphim considered the symphony of the authorities - ecclesiastical and royal. Archbishop Seraphim believed that the destruction of this symphony led Russia to the 1917 disaster of the year. The archpastor was convinced that monarchical rule should be restored in Russia. At the same time, he opposed absolutism and the subordination of the Church to the state.

During the Second World War, Archbishop Seraphim did not serve prayers for the victory of Germany, and also refused to bless the Russian émigrés to fight against Russia, saying that it was a sin to fight against their homeland.

In September, Soviet troops entered Bulgaria's 1944. Arrests began, both of the former members of the White Guard formations and of those who were not involved in the politics of Russian émigrés. In such cases, the archpastor was often asked for prayer assistance.

2 March 1945, Archbishop Seraphim sent a letter to Patriarch Alexy I, in which he congratulated him on his election as Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church. 15 April 1945, Archbishop Seraphim appealed to His Holiness with a request for admission to the Moscow Patriarchate. October 30 1945, Archbishop Seraphim and seven Russian parishes in Bulgaria were taken under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Church authorities. Management of these parishes was entrusted to Archbishop Seraphim with direct subordination to the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. In the spring of 1946, the Russian community returned to the Church of St. Nicholas on the Tsar Liberator Boulevard.

In May 1946, a delegation of the Russian Church headed by Patriarch Alexy arrived in Sofia. His Holiness the Patriarch performed a divine service in the Church of St. Nicholas. In his sermon, Archbishop Seraphim said: “For twenty-five years we have been at odds with our mother, our Russian Church. But this dissociation was a purely external phenomenon, because in our hearts there was complete unity with you, with all the brothers of our country, with those who recognize the Patriarchal Church in Russia. ” But, having left the Russian Church Abroad, Archbishop Seraphim always refrained from condemning her.

In 1948, the hierarch took part in the Pan-Orthodox Conference in Moscow. The archpastor delivered three presentations - on the Anglican hierarchy, on the ecumenical movement and on the new calendar style. Archbishop Seraphim did not deny the theological dialogue and thoughtfully approached the problem of relations with non-Orthodox, insisting that the dialogue should be serious and balanced. At the same time, he denied the possibility of compromise in dogmatic issues and opposed the entry of the Russian Church into the World Council of Churches. The archpastor also negatively related to the possibility of the transition of the Orthodox Church to a new calendar.

In the last years of his life, Archbishop Seraphim actively participated in the struggle against the renewal tendencies in the Bulgarian Orthodox Church. In 1949, an article by Archbishop Seraphim appeared in the organ of the Synod of the Bulgarian Church - "Church Herald" against church modernism and belittling the role of the Synod in church management. The hierarchs of the Bulgarian Church subsequently noted that the speech of Archbishop Seraphim helped to stop the renovation confusion in the Bulgarian Church.

Another task of the archpastor was the creation of a monastery in Bulgaria. The dream of Archbishop Seraphim came true a few months before his death. It was possible to obtain permission from the authorities to open a small monastery. The opening of the new monastery was blessed by His Holiness Patriarch Alexy. The archpastor himself was already dying. But even being bedridden, he continued to lead the work on the arrangement of the monastery. Speaking of the monastery, he accurately described the premises in which he had never been. And when the nuns asked how he knew this, the archpastor smiled and replied: "Oh, yes?"

Shortly before his death, Archbishop Seraphim advised him to write letters as if he were alive. “When it becomes hard for you,” the archbishop said, “you write me a letter and leave it at my grave. If I receive mercy from the Lord, I will comfort you and help you. ”

26 February 1950 of the year, on the Feast of the Triumph of Orthodoxy, on 15 hours, Archbishop Seraphim (Sobolev) ended his earthly journey in an apartment on Veliko Tarnovo street. The next day, the body of the deceased archpastor was transferred to the church of St. Nicholas. Until late at night, the residents of Sofia went to bid farewell to the departed hierarch.

March 1 Archbishop Seraphim was buried in the crypt of St. Nicholas Church.

The veneration of the archpastor began almost immediately after his death. In August, 1950, Mother Superior of the Pokrovsky Monastery, nun Seraphim (Liven) wrote to His Holiness Patriarch Alexy that in all the sorrows the monastery sisters receive invisible help from Archbishop Seraphim. In 1952, Archpriest Sergiy Kazansky, appointed to Sofia, testified that Archbishop Seraphim’s resting place was visited by his admirers. The number of admirers of Archbishop Seraphim grew every year. Immediately began the recording of miracles through the prayers of the archpastor, most of which were published. Currently, more than a hundred cases of posthumous prayer assistance from Archbishop Seraphim have been recorded. Most cases are associated with healings, turning to faith, giving a child, etc.

Comments

[Andrey Yuryevich]

Heavenly patron of the Bulgarian-Russian friendship

that option when something doesn’t work ...

[Foofighter]

it doesn’t work for them with the Serbs, and a little with the Greeks

[zoknyay82]

The attitude of these little brothers to Russia is completely indifferent. Whether they love, Russophobia, conduct exercises with our sworn partners, or they will succumb to the igil throughout the country. This is not interesting to me. We all know about the series of betrayals of these lovely little brothers. If anyone in this wonderful country loves Russia without compensation, people come to pave the way, like Americans, Europeans and other Poles. As for the politics of this country, God will judge them.

[Nubia2]

Doubtful friendship.
In both the First and Second Wars, the "grateful" Bulgarians fought against us.

[The stranger]

Please remind me when and where they fought? Dates, locations, treble numbers.

[Nubia2]

Please.
In World War I, Bulgaria fought for the central powers from the age of 15.
And in the second, she was an ally of Hitler.
Quite enough.

[The stranger]

With whom did they fight, where did they fight, how did they fight, how did Russia suffer from this?
And then "you are a bastard, because you personally got overwhelmed in some year, while on the next street an orphan child was crying with hunger. That's enough." And all the cases.
Ugly, huh?
That's so that it doesn’t turn out ugly - first read the story at least in the volume of high school, and only then discuss it. It says that they did not fight. And the world wars and world wars - that everyone finds themselves somewhere with someone, and very much not of their own free will. And then carrying nonsense - not for long and will offend a friend, and even run into a very uncomfortable opponent. In the meantime, as I heard, you seem to have a little discord with Turkey. And the will of Catherine the Great about the Straits has not been canceled. And over them is the 20 millionth Istanbul, and neither take it nor burn it. And the Mediterranean Sea is needed more than even in past centuries. Here you need Bulgaria and its Bulgarians, not the Americans. Which, on occasion, will happily help with the Straits and the land corridor around them. As Russians need the Bulgarians, because. Without even considering pan-Slavism. So please do not fall into the insults that take place in our area unless drunk, and then the offender is ashamed of tears.

[Nubia2]

Quote: Alien

With whom did they fight, where did they fight, how did they fight, how did Russia suffer from this?
And then "you are a bastard, because you personally got overwhelmed in some year, while on the next street an orphan child was crying with hunger. That's enough." And all the cases.
Ugly, huh?
That's so that it doesn’t turn out ugly - first read the story at least in the volume of high school, and only then discuss it. It says that they did not fight. So please do not fall into the insults that take place in our area unless drunk, and then the offender is ashamed of tears.

They were allied with Hitler. Including Germans based on the Bulgarian ports. There are also our sunken ships by the Bulgarians. So the fact remains. By their own will or not, the Bulgarians were enemies both times. And this is quite enough. In this regard, the Yugoslavs are more brothers))).
So there is damage. Although, I agree, and incomparable.
As for `` reading history '' ... that's how I teach it. So leave your advice to yourself.
Yes, and not ashamed. The fact is not an insult.

[The stranger]

Then please remind, Teacher, when, how, and most importantly WHAT the Bulgarians drowned Soviet ships.
If you are SO teaching your story, I’m afraid to ask someone, then do not be offended if someone else is also rewriting it.

Boy, it's not worth starting your life on a decent site, a lie. Even a student should not refer to invented facts, and even more so to use words like "Yugoslavs" with regards to those years and events. Here, nevertheless, there are no gatherings of preschool trolls. I understand the desire to ride with the whole rostrum to the football, but propaganda and history, which has long been taken apart, are still very different things.

[Nubia2]

Quote: Alien

Then please remind, Teacher, when, how, and most importantly WHAT the Bulgarians drowned Soviet ships.
If you are SO teaching your story, I’m afraid to ask someone, then do not be offended if someone else is also rewriting it.

Boy, it's not worth starting your life on a decent site, a lie. Even a student should not refer to invented facts, and even more so to use words like "Yugoslavs" with regards to those years and events. Here, nevertheless, there are no gatherings of preschool trolls. I understand the desire to ride with the whole rostrum to the football, but propaganda and history, which has long been taken apart, are still very different things.

Boy?)) Have you already set the age?)) Everything is clear with you.
Prefer discussing your opponent rather than learning the facts.
You are no longer interested.

[but still]

"To the history teacher".

How tired of you like propagandists are bad ...

What are the sunken ships in the situation that the embassy of the USSR throughout the WWII worked in Sofia?

You poke an alliance with Hitler, and you yourself forget about the friendship of the USSR with him (the parade of Soviet-German friendship in September 1939 in Brest);
delivery of fuel, food and raw materials from the end of August 1939 until June 1941 USSR Germany.

Oh, about "Yugoslavs, your bigger brothers" you write ... So during the war in Greece and Yugoslavia, the USSR supplied the German army with gasoline and food to the port of Burgas (according to the testimony of General Lukash and according to Theodosiy Daskalov).

So come up with something else to water if you can. But judging by the hackneyed and unsuccessful topic of Hitler and the two world wars that you used, your wit and knowledge are not enough to come up with something new.

[Nubia2]

If tired, do not contact.
Which ships? Yes, at least sch204, recessed by the Bulgarians.
...
By the way, there was no parade in Brest.
What the liberals pretend to be for you is just a change of one garrison to another.
...
I did not see any arguments against the facts from you.
Bulgarians are allies of the Nazis. There is nothing to cover.
...
So learn the materiel, not complain about the ingenuity and knowledge of others.

[but still]

How tired you are with your grievances and claims really ...

Your pike off the Bulgarian coast (what it did there under the condition that the USSR embassy worked in Sofia during the war and the USSR declared the war in Bulgaria at the end of 1944) sank: 1) a Romanian mine 2) a Bulgarian plane 3) a German plane from of all versions, the most believable version is number 3 - read:

Riddle of the death of "Shch-211"
Extensive research work carried out by Bulgarian enthusiasts made it possible to reconstruct in detail the chronicle of the events of the last day of the deceased "Pike". On November 14, 1941, "Shch-211", which was in a combat position, takes bearings at Cape Galata, the Romanian minelayer "Prince Karol", heading for Varna. However, the first torpedo attack by our submariners was unsuccessful. Taking advantage of the pause, the commander of the Romanian ship reports an attack on a German military airfield located in the Varna Lake area. The second torpedo salvo of the Pike reaches its target: Prince Karol sinks to the bottom 5 miles from Varna. Convinced of the defeat of the enemy ship, the commander of "Shch-211" gives the command to surface. On the surface and at maximum speed, the submarine begins to move in a southeast direction. However, 3 miles from the sinking site of the Prince Carol, the Pike overtakes a German plane. Having received severe damage to the hull from the bombs dropped on it, the submarine sinks. The next day, storm waves will wash ashore near the village of Shkorpilovtsy terrible evidence of the death of a Soviet submarine: the disfigured body of the senior assistant commander, a torn landing boat and a crumpled container with fuel. It is interesting that the sequence of events of that distant tragic day outlined by the Bulgarians has nothing to do with the official version of the sinking of Shch-211. According to Soviet data, Lieutenant-Commander Devyatko's "Pike" was blown up by a mine near Cape Shabler on November 16, 1941, that is, two days later.

http://flot.com/history/events/zagadka.htm
More: http://www.town.ural.ru/ship/ship/h204.php3

There was NO PARADE IN BREST in 1939, say? The Germans not only captured your joint parade of winners and friendship in photographs, but also filmed a documentary (see on YouTube)

Calm down, provocateur!

[Nubia2]

Quote: but still

There was NO PARADE IN BREST in 1939, say?

did not have.
what is captured in the photo and film is NOT PARADE
and the change of garrisons.
http://blog.fontanka.ru/posts/149356/
stop lying liberalist

[Web]

Suppose a drop at a time, but it is necessary to establish relations between peoples. If this can be done through the church, then Neophyte and Cyril are doing everything right.

[biserino]

Quote: Nubia2

Doubtful friendship.
In both the First and Second Wars, the "grateful" Bulgarians fought against us.

No, we did not fight against you. If in 1942 the 300 Bulgarian army was over Stalingrad, it will now be called Bolgargrad.

[Foofighter]

the Bulgarian army was in the rear convoy service, the Czech army wasn’t carrying it ... but was there at least 100000 partisans in Bulgaria?

[The stranger]

Yes? And whom and where did she escort?
And against whom was it necessary to partisan when there were no German garrisons here?

[Nubia2]

Quote: biserino

we did not fight against you

lies

Quote: biserino

If in 1942 the 300 Bulgarian army was over Stalingrad, it will now be called Bolgargrad

what?
translate into Russian

[The stranger]

To Russian, or to historical, Historian? :)
He said that if there were 300 Bulgarian soldiers near Stalingrad, now he would be called Bolgrad.
There are two references.
The combat readiness of the Bulgarian and Romanian armies was always not comparable. Therefore, Hitler also demanded that the Bulgarian Tsar Boris send the Bulgarian army to the east, and when he was refused, he was killed in the 43rd. So, having the Bulgarians near Stalingrad, and not the Romanians, who in the end you broke through - tore, you would not have kept him.
The creator of Danube Bulgaria, Khan Asparukh, was a native of the Volga Bulgaria. Well, about in the Stalingrad area. In the socio-political situation of 39-41, it was as if it were easy to incite the population of Bulgaria against the USSR, which attempts were honestly undertaken. Like "take back our ancestral home." To which the population responded with deep understanding - "go with a nemchura to brothers, or what? Yeah, schA, only here I will take my fucking flax out of the German, and immediately go." Then what happened happened. And the first clashes between the Bulgarian army and its ally, the Wehrmacht, took place even before the USSR declared war on the Kingdom of Bulgaria. You still dealt with Yash and Kishinev, and the Bulgarian army was not yet part of the Third Ukrainian Front. So they fought with the Russians in an extreme war.
Well, something like that, Historian.
Read books. If you strain - call me, I'll take you to the museum. I have a bad pass, everyone will show it.

[but still]

The creator of Danube Bulgaria, Khan Asparuh, was a native of the Volga Bulgaria

I agree with your opinion, but let me fix it a bit - Asparuh was not a native of the Volga Bulgaria, he was the brother of Kotrag, the founder of the Volga Bulgaria. Asparuh, Kotrag and 3 more brothers were the sons of Kubrat, the founder of Ancient Great Bulgaria (7th century northern Black Sea coast). After the death of Kubrat (the treasure from his grave in the Poltava region is stored in the Hermitage), the eldest son Boyan (Bat Boyan) remained with a part of the Bulgarians in place and entered the Khazar Kaganate. Kotrag led a part of the Bulgarians to the north and founded the Volga Bulgaria on the Volga and Kama, Asparuh led a part of the Bulgarians beyond the Danube and founded the Danube Bulgaria. The other two sons led part of the Bulgarians to the territory of modern Italy and Switzerland, but they failed to found the Bulgarian state, but the surname with the root of the Bulgarians / Bulgarians is still found in Italy.

[The stranger]

Oh yes, but that's a different story. Not now, and even less so in the 40-41th, these subtleties were not the core of politics.
I want - I don’t want to, I have to wander about the Internet, this is the job. There are places where they write interestingly. But I do not have registrations everywhere - I do not consider it necessary. Where it is very interesting - there is, for example here. All the more depressing when in a good place hooligans rush in.
It is understandable if “on Friday after a disco in London I was beaten by the Bulgarians - I hate them !!!”, or when “in the battles for Sofia my grandfather was shot by a Bulgarian sniper and I hate them”. And when "then the spoons were really found, but there was a sediment" - then I already have a sediment. I understand that stupid people live all over the world, and that my dream that all Russians are smart is the same utopia as eternal happiness. But it may sometimes be worth upsetting them. Then it will become easier for me to get at home that which the incomprehensible screamers argue about.

[but still]

Indeed, these subtleties are not fundamental to those years, and even today, but still I consider it important to point out these details for completeness and clear perception of historical events.

[vvp2]

Quote: Ivan Ivanov

Orthodoxy is the cornerstone of Russian civilization.

May be. But do not forget about the centuries-old Islamic civilization of Muscovites-tartar. In history, this phenomenon is known as the "yoke". Therefore, it could be more careful about the cornerstone.

Quote: Ivan Ivanov

Heavenly patron of the Bulgarian-Russian friendship

Friendship between nations, this is nonsense. Because in the process of human evolution, any nations, and even more so, more or less neighboring ones, are competitors. And the fact that at certain periods of time these competitors united against a common enemy does not matter at all for the future.

[Mikhail3]

Their friendship is enough for us. Let's think about partnership. Not equal, of course, but appropriate to the possibilities. That is, not as before, with the full breadth of the Russian soul, but for the deeds of our "friends". Does Bulgaria need something? Let him give us a fair pay. And not just fair, but one that suits us. Do we need something? Well, we will pay, and we will control with all severity so that we are not deceived.
There can be no faith, no concessions, no friendship with traitors. The activation of articles on the network on this topic clearly indicates - the Bulgarians missed the freebie. Partnerships with the United States clearly disappointed them :) So the guys who were fluent in Russian, who had just pretended to have forgotten this language yesterday, suddenly remembered everything! And how let's be friends again! Enough. We made friends.

[Nubia2]

Fully join.

[Yarik76]

Orthodoxy is "Heavenly patrons are" I do not observe any friendship between Bulgarians and Russians at all.

[biserino]

Quote: Mikhail3

Their friendship is enough with us. Let's think about a partnership. Not equal, of course, but appropriate capabilities.

In Bulgaria, the price of gas is sold to us more expensive than the price for Germany,
bros, huh?

[stariy]

And do you ask the Turks to be brother-brothers, they will give you everything for free, like your brother-brothers are British or brother-Americans, they are buying everything from you for expensive and selling for cheap ...

[bolik]

Well, why are you so little brothers ... I myself normally belonged to Russians in Bulgaria. And what is ungrateful in the political-historical perspective is that the Ukrainians bros and so on and so forth.
It is necessary to lick the strategy of the Anglo-Saxons, seized the "colony" let them provide themselves there and pay us a percentage of this. And everyone will be grateful, otherwise we will put ourselves in a bad light.
Like the maydaunas that were dying for euro values.

[Plamenvarna]

More than 400'000 Russian citizens live permanently in Bulgaria.
And more than 500'000 houses have bought here.
Only in Varna they are more than 12'000.
The flow of Russian tourists in Bulgaria is much greater.
And growing.
Even the Financial Times writes that Russians feel at home in Bulgaria.
They work, they are friends, they enjoy life, there are Russian schools.
Russians live with us, celebrate common holidays, do not encapsulate, there is no barrier.
Only "nasseperedalschikov" have all sorts of "freebies" in their heads as always, "fought against us," etc.
We have both terrestrial and cable television - only digital, on the cheapest cable package in the amount of 18 leva = 9 euros per month, where all the high-speed Internet + TV are available all the main Russian programs. Foreign political news - all from Russian programs. The main interest is Putin, Syria, smaller Ukraine.
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On account of "brothers surrendered to America," here's how it is:
The Americans initially knew that nothing could be seen about the swing of Russophobia in Bulgaria, they were reconciled with the children and only pretended to be present here.
And no NATO and no America with their 3 tanks, 5 guns and 10 Russian carts and we no more than a drum.
Those of us who liked America are long gone (almost all) and a place has been freed for us.
The Bulgarian-speaking Turks are gradually freeing up the same place, they are going to live in Turkey, and we are helping them in every way in their own venture.
Bezhantsi (most) only in transit, so that we will not have the "Arab spring", we think how to send our qigans to Europe together with it, but they do not like to pay for energy.
So, if someone is interested about the friendship of the Bulgarians with the Russians, you better ask the Russians who live in Bulgaria permanently or have a rest with us. They will tell you the truth, not sky fantasies.
The rest is not particularly intelligent Bulgarophobia, ignorance of history, obsession and failure parallels with the broken-off Ukraine, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Azebaidzhan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, etc. countries in which Russians are considered "non-citizens"

[Mikhail3]

The Americans initially knew that nothing could be seen about the swing of Russophobia in Bulgaria, they were reconciled with the children and only pretended to be present here.

And to make the view more convincing, they torpedoed the South Stream project. A kind of light mania of the hand, carelessly. I understand that it seems to you, Bulgarians, that our treasury is inexhaustible, and some 30-100 billion are not even worth mentioning. What a trifle, really! Of course, this nonsense cannot affect your friendly feelings in any way, right?
Yes, people bought houses. And they live with you, right. So in America, a lot of houses were bought, and a lot of people live. This friendship is familiar to you perfectly - as long as you pay, you need to and friend! So you know what - we will buy such friendship wherever you want, for your own money.
In general, from now on you will have to pay. How do we pay. For everything, according to the price list, without discounts, and on time. Freedom, you know. It is not for nothing that the Americans, from morning to night, inspire everyone about the desired freedom. Highest value.
And what is freedom in true friendship? You cannot be a friend and be free; you always limit yourself for the sake of a friend. Well, you escaped. To freedom, cheers! So eat it, oh wolves ...

[Nekarmadlen]

Gypsies and in Russia tried not to pay for gas for several years)))) (Tula region)

[Plamenvarna]

Take turns.
(1) South Stream was torpedoed not by the rules, but by the rules in the EU.
AND IT IS VERY VERY KNOWN

(2) What I think about your treasury and some 30-100-100000 billion there, I know better than you. I know and UTB - first you need to coordinate the project between the seller - comrade. Miler and the buyer - the EU (in the EU there was a problem, not an eventual transit), then you draw up a contract and divide 30-100-10000000 billions of dollars as you like. Your money, your profit, your risk. NOBODY ASKED TO BULGARIA.

AND THIS YOU ALSO VERY KNOW GOOD, BUT CONTINUES LIE.

(3) !!! "as long as you pay, sweat and friend" ??? !!!
NO ... our friendship paid is not held in high esteem.
Friendship is not bought. A cottage is bought, a kilo of meat, a liter of moonshine. I WRITTEN VERY CLEAR FROM ABOVE not about the houses I bought, but about the friendly atmosphere that Russians find here, I emphasize - RUSSIAN, and not forum provocateurs and all over the world transmitters.

(4) Have to pay us? What didn’t you pay?
We are not Cuba, not a state from Latin America or from the near and far east, or Africa, which the debts were written off. And we also wrote off.

But there is a DEBT. Unfortunately, irreversible.
We can not return the fallen Russian soldiers.
Can not.
They did not return to their mothers and children.
Neither the soldiers who laid down in our land, freeing us from the Turkish yoke, nor the soldiers who died in the battles with the Nazis.
Only we can flowers on the graves.
And to give a promise to those who showed disrespect. Beat and such scum.

(5) "you always limit yourself for the sake of a friend" ??? !!!
And you have everything in order at the expense of relationships with other people ???

Freedom. And no one bothered us to beat free either before or now. So there’s no reason to break out. I'm here. And free. And no one bothers anyone to live freely - neither to the Bulgarians, nor to the Russians.
And freedom does not interfere and interfere can not be friends with people.
What is your presentation of light?
Anyone who respects and loves someone does not limit freedom.
We didn’t have in our past either such a time as you had in 37, nor such fratricidal 17 of them. It was just that fate saved us, and even the devil was not pulled by the tail and the candidate was not submitted to hegemony.

(6) "So eat it, oh wolves"

And what is ?????? !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What a horror.

Bless you.

[Mikhail3]

I'll start from the end. Wasn't it possible to read Kipling's "Mowgli" in Russian translation? Or at least watch our cartoon? It would be worth ... when a pack of wolves, incited by the tiger Sherkhan, flooded their sick leader and wanted to devour him, they were not allowed to kill the leader (although they really wanted to). Well, then, without a leader, on the loose, the flock got mad, became degraded and very hungry. Here is the panther Bagheera and noticed them somehow - you wanted freedom? Well, eat it, wolves! Doesn't it look like anything? The leader was torn in half so that the flock would not strain, and was always full and whole. Well, how sick and old became ...
Yes, everything is fine with other people. And here you are ... you have an American attitude towards friends. Smiling at them and waving, that means friends! Everyone is laughing! Well great, right? Well, I'm Russian. I am friends - it means that for a friend I will undertake to make me completely unnecessary. I will bear the pain, boredom, fatigue. And if necessary - I will fight for a friend, and die for him. And he is for me. This is our friendship among Russians. You don’t understand, I know.
Hence the rest. "EU rules" yeah. That is, a Russian friend for you should have installed pipes and put a lot of money in his pocket. And you for a Russian friend did not even think to aggravate relations with the EU a little, right? Because the EU rules are not the law of gravity, you can follow them, but you don't have to try. It’s not even for a friend, but more for you ... but you don’t agree to squeeze even a crumb. We must endure this, we are Russians. And you don't owe anything, you are "friends" in the American way.
What are you waiting for besides contempt, "brother"?
Americans despise you as freeloaders trying to grab for nothing. And how fools who do not understand that an insignificant Bulgaria and a crumb will not be grabbed by strong Americans! American friendship is that. And we Russians despise you because you were with us, but we did not understand our friendship. The only thing that has reached you is that you can parasitize on us, smiling sweetly. And besides a "sincere" smile, you don't owe your friend anything. It's a shame to look at you guys.

[but still]

But we Russians despise you for being with us, but you still don’t understand our friendship. It only reached you that you can parasitize on us, smiling sweetly.

You do not speak for all Russians. And what you wrote sounds like a tirade of an outcast boyfriend. The feeling of rejected friendship, hurt pride, resentment, insult ...
You will sort it out with your relationship. And with friendships with all your "brotherly peoples", neighbors, allies in the EAEU and the CSTO, etc. In recent months, some slops have been pouring in the media and comments ... And everywhere resentment that they are not friends with you the way you would like. And all around you are the same freeloaders, traitors, etc. etc. Think and sort out your feelings and relationships before blaming everyone and everything around you.

[Mikhail3]

Still hopeful? Do you believe that I am not "all Russians"? That there will be enough more idiots on your account, that they will bring you freebies again, and you will disdainfully twist your nose - some kind of freebie carelessly packed? I will disappoint. I am still talking to you politely. As a rule, Russians simply use swear words when they mention "brothers". We are really patient people. But the Russian people are warriors. And we despise traitors. The depth of our longsuffering is shown by the fact that we forgave you two betrayals, and this is already incomprehensible to the mind. But now everything is finally enough.
You will pay. For every sneeze. Like the Americans. And you won't go anywhere. We are close here, and our logistics costs are lower. So you will pay to us. You yourself are nothing, so you won't earn a penny "for pride" to buy more expensive. And we will kick debts out of you, like Americans, with a good campaign. What do you still have left there? If there's anything left, we'll take it. If not ... well think. You will have to pay with something. What did the Turks take from you there?

[The stranger]

Russian, but haven't you, together with the French, created Yugoslavia? So for about 100 years of the existence of this monster and its predecessors, on that territory the Serbs killed one and a half million Bulgarians for no reason at all, for precisely because they are Bulgarians. Not even having machine guns and concentration camps.
Do I thank you for this, or hit the same dictionaries?
Bite your tongue, Mowgli ...

[Mikhail3]

When the Russians liberated Bulgaria (here we were tossing a fool!), The Bulgarians quickly seated the Germans on their throne (well, not Russian, really? Bulgarian thanks are that, huh) and rushed to fight the Serbs. There was a brilliant idea - we will take the land from the Serbs, and in which case Russia will cover us! Well, this is your Bulgarian concept ...
It didn’t work out. At first, the Serbs will beat you in the teeth, then in the ass, and then yes, they did not treat prisoners well. For example, I’m always with those who climb my house to ruin and take away, too, is harsh. And I understand the Serbs well. And the Bulgarians ... ashamed of us for the Bulgarians. The Turks understood the matter better.

[The stranger]

What does "parasitize" mean? As far as I remember, following the death of the CMEA, the USSR owed Bulgaria 100 million dollars, which Russia recognized and paid. No, for me personally it was strange and unfair, but I am not an economist. I shouldn't have been, but I didn't decide.
But everything else that you say is very out of concept. Present not at the address, the collision is inadequate. But I do not blame you - you are simply not in the topic of the local bedlam, that is why you are offended. I’m also offended, but not against you, because I know who the war is against me. Maybe sometime the stars will rise, then I’ll ask them for you, not just for myself.

[Mikhail3]

You don't blame me ... I'm just crying with happiness! The USSR built factories in Bulgaria. For free. For billions of dollars. And at the time of the onset of our illness, some trifle was operational, such as a hundred million for products. Well ... we paid. Or did you build these facilities yourself, freeloaders? What did you have there, besides the Bati shoe factory? And what remains of yours, hehe?
I don't care about the local bedlam. Russia does not care. Why do we need to further understand? We only have a headache from this and it becomes empty in the wallet. Money on the barrel! And that’s all.

[but still]

Yes, you finally calm down! I answered you very politely, despite your frank calls to "aggravate relations with the EU" as you wrote, despite your words about hatred and contempt for the Bulgarians (incitement, is not it?), You are also writing on behalf of all Russians! So you are calling for the destabilization of Bulgaria, inciting ethnic hatred, making claims and also threatening with reprisals! From all this we can conclude that you simply stupidly discredit the Russians with your writings, which suggests that you are simply a provocateur.

[The stranger]

For nothing? Once dealt with a factory, which existed before the war. There, in the archive, there were invoices for all equipment, including those purchased in the USSR.
And in the Academy of Sciences, I had to learn the art of soldering officials to knock out currency from them, including transferable rubles, for the right one from the Union.
Well, here you have the money in barrels. And then I don’t buy much from them, and again you will be offended.