About the memory society, dissidents, the WORK of the KGB with the church, as well as the fact that it is impossible to even talk to KGB officials - in fragments from the interview of retired KGB lieutenant colonel Vladimir Popov, given to the online publication "Gordon" in 2020. You can watch the full interview here
RE: From the interview of the KGB lieutenant colonel (VIDEO) - Metropolitan Agafangel 31.07.2020 11:24
Like the two divisions of the 9th Division 5 in the system of management, which were "developing" Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov, there was a branch in the KGB, which "designed" Metropolitan Vitali, which employed 5 people. This was told in the 90s by journalist Alexander Delicate, who personally talked in the restaurant with the current employee of this department.
It is obvious that there is a department dealing with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, which included the department, "developing e" Metropolitan Vitali.
Sooner or later we will find out the number of this department, and all its employees and agents - the names of all the traitors who prepared the destruction of the ROCO.
And the kgb-FSB-SBU can not even talk, as the lieutenant colonel said, because the only conversation with them is cooperation. In the mid-1990s I was invited by a former parishioner to meet with a KGB representative dealing with church issues, to which I replied - please, but on the condition that I write a detailed report on this conversation to our Synod. Naturally, the meeting did not take place.
Kgb-shniki always ask that their conversation with you remain secret, and no one needs to tell about it. If you promised not to tell anyone - then you are already their current employee.
KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCOR.1
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publish Date: . Category: History of the ROC.
Notes of a former KGB lieutenant colonel: Emigrants and Soviet special services
One of the authors of the book "KGB plays chess" and former employee of the State Security Committee of the USSR Vladimir Popov recently completed work on his memoirs. In the book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" he tells about the formation of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his associates, his work in the committee and key events to which the Soviet special services were involved. Previously, the book was not published. With the author's consent, GORDON exclusively publishes chapters from it. In this part Popov writes about how the special services worked with figures who emigrated from the Soviet Union.
Pictured: Russian store in Paris. 1930s
Vladimir POPOV
Protopresviter Alexander Kiselyov
During the confrontation between the two systems, the Soviet secret services were actively introduced into various foreign religious structures (including the Russian Orthodox Church abroad - the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church), which did not recognize the Bolsheviks' power, and actively developed Russian emigrant centers and organizations. Among those who were particularly interested in soviet state security was a prominent figure of the ROCP protopresviter Alexander Kiselyov.
The future protopresviter was born on October 7, 1909 in Tver province. After the October coup of 1917, his family was forced to leave for what was then independent Estonia, as his father was from Yuriev (Tartu). And for several decades Alexander lived in the Baltics. It was there that he became a participant in one of the most significant phenomena of Russian church life in the first half of the 20th century - the Russian Student Christian Movement (RSCD).
At the origins of this movement were such well-known figures of the church as the proto-priest Vasily zenkovsky, proto-priest Sergiy Chetverikov, priest Alexander Yelchaninov and other prominent clerks of the Russian Orthodox abroad. The RSKHD office was also in the Baltics.
In 1933, Alexander Kiselyov graduated from the Riga Spiritual Seminary, assuming to continue his studies of theology at the St. Sergiev Institute in Paris. But in August 1933 he was ordained a priest and began to serve in several parishes: first in Narva, then in St. Nicholas Church in Tallinn, where the deacon was also a member of the RSCD Alexei Riediger, the future Holy Patriarch of Moscow and all russ alexi ii, recruited by the Soviet state security under the nickname Of Drozdov.
At the memorial service for Father Alexander on October 4, 2001, the Holy Patriarch with tears in his eyes recalled the old years and the image of the good shepherd, which for him in his adolescence was then a young priest Alexander Kiselyov.
In 1940, after the occupation of the Baltic states by the Red Army, Father Alexander went to Germany (helped a certain amount of German blood of his wife). After June 1941, he began to organize parish life for tens of thousands of Soviet citizens who found themselves in wartime conditions in Germany - for prisoners, people taken to work in the German Reich, for those who were called Ostarbeiters (Eastern workers).
At the same time there was a meeting of Alexander's father and former Soviet commander General Andrei Vlasov, whom his father Alexander understood and accepted. He considered the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) to be a natural continuation of the struggle of the Russian people against communism, which was fought during the civil war and during peasant uprisings throughout then-Soviet Russia.
Father Alexander was appointed as a cleric of the Central Staff of the Armed Forces of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia (CONR) and a spiritual mentor of General Vlasov. Father Alexander spent the last months of the war in parts of the CONR Armed Forces in Munzingen, retreating with Russian units deep into Bavaria. Later, Father Alexander detailed vlasov in his memoirs "The Appearance of General Vlasov", which was published in 1976 in the United States.
After the war, Father Alexander managed to move to New York, where he established the St. Seraphim Foundation and the book publishing the Way of Life, which produced religious and philosophical literature. Since 1978, with a group of like-minded people, he published the magazine "Russian Revival" in which prominent writers, scholars and clergymen of emigration were printed. Kiselyov became one of the founders and spirituals of the largest Russian expat organization in the United States , the Congress of Russian Americans. His anti-communism expressed a burning desire to cleanse Russia of the terrible "disease", to return the people to the path of repentance and service to Christ.
In 1990, after the election of another patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, who became a long-time acquaintance of Father Alexander Alexy II, Alexander Kiselyov had the opportunity to visit his homeland. The case for the Soviet Union was unique: a convinced anti-communist, a confessor of the treasonous general Vlasov and a spiritual pastor of his anti-Soviet army received a visa to enter the country, the struggle against which he devoted all his adult life.
Father Alexander Kiselyov with his mother Callista. Photo: orthodoxmoscow.ru
Of course, the issue of Kiselyov's trip to the USSR was decided not in the patriarchy, but in the KGB. In developing foreign anti-Soviet centers, THE Russian Orthodox Church and prominent figures of emigration, the KGB conducted multi-vehicle operations to achieve goals known only to the leadership.
An experienced agent of the 4th Division of the 5th Kgb Department 'Drozdov' (in the world, the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church Alexey II), performing the task of his curators, conducted the processing of his influential father Alexander in the ROC with the aim of persuading him of the need to unite the ROC and the ROC, whose leadership for many decades held an irreconcilable position towards the Moscow Patriarchate.
Alexander's father's grandson, Peter Kholodly, recalled that in the 1980s his grandfather's house in New York was a "place of secret meetings" of the hierarchs of the ROCOR and the Moscow Patriarchate. It was there that an informal meeting took place with the future patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alex II, who arrived in the United States on the instructions of the KGB. Many years later, Alexy described this meeting as completely spontaneous: "I knew Father Alexander from a young age, when the boy helped him at services... At the end of the war he left Estonia. Neither I nor my parents have heard anything about him. And then one day, when, being already a bishop, I found myself on a service trip in America, my father Alexander called me at the hotel and invited me to his church. The meeting was very touching.'
In 1998, Father Alexander donated to the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana of Moscow State University of Iconostasis, formerly in a home-owned expat church in New York. In the temple this since 1996 was fed by parishioners already mentioned by us Father Vladimir (Vigilyansky), since the 1970s, who since the 1970s was in the agency apparatus of the 9th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate. It seems that father Alexander was not allowed to join other clerics who were not in the state security agency.
Alexander Kazem-Beck
Alexander Kazem-Bek (born February 15, 1902 in Kazan - died February 21, 1977 in Moscow) was the leader of the immigrant movement of the Young Russians. White emigrant, publicist, teacher, church journalist, theologian. He was born into an old noble family and was the grandson of The Persian Mirza Kasim-Bek, one of the founders of Russian oriental studies, a professor at the University of Kazan and St. Petersburg.
Alexander's father, Lev Kazem-Bek, graduated from the Page Corps, where his neighbor was Count Alexey Ignatieff, who became a military intelligence officer in Tsarist Russia, a general who later joined the Soviet government.
In 1906, Piotr Stolypin, who began agrarian reform, appointed Lev Kazem-Bek to Kaluga as director of the State Bank, which was created to carry out land reform. At the end of 1910, Agriculture Minister Alexander Krivoshein appointed Lev Kazem-Bek as manager of the Peasant and Noble Land Bank in Revel. The lion volunteered in world War I.
In August 1917 Kazem-Beki left for Kazan, and in March 1918 moved from Kazan to Kislovodsk, where "all of Petrograd" had come.
It was in Kislovodsk that the future leader of the Young Russians Alexander Kazem-Bek met the great princes Andrei and Boris, brothers of the great prince Kirill Vladimirovich.
The advancing Reds forced Alexander to go to Rostov-on-Don, where he enrolled in the Faculty of Law of the University of Rostov. In 1920, Alexander's family from Novorossiysk was evacuated to Thessaloniki, then Yugoslavia.
In September 1920, Alexander entered the University of Belgrade's Faculty of Philology, mastered the Serbian-Croatian language and began working as a translator for the Committee for Russian Refugees in Belgrade.
From Yugoslavia, Kazem-Beki moved to France. From 1925 to 1929 they lived in Monte Carlo.
By the early 1930s, Alexander became a well-known Russian fascist, a supporter of Italian fascism and German Nazism. In fascist circles he was quite well known. The dossier of Italian special services about Alexander Kazem-Bek reported that he was "the only white emigrant who had an audience with Mussolini, meeting with him in May 1934."
Alexander also maintained relations with the first secretary of the fascist party Akila Starace, participated in the congress of fascist parties of Russian emigration in Berlin, was the editor-in-chief of the fascist edition "Our Banner" printed in Vesin (France), where he himself at that time lived, taking a sharply anti-Soviet position and calling for white emigration to war against the Soviet Union.
However, under the influence of Hitler's policies, Alexander Kazem-Bek's views on the USSR began to change. By 1937, he was already a supporter of Stalin and welcomed Stalin's repressions as a method of extermination of the Communists-internationalists. The reorientation of Kazem-Bek to the Soviet Union was also facilitated by contacts with Ignatieff, a resident of Soviet intelligence in Europe. Ignatieff was also a classmate of Alexander's brother-in-law, Mikhail Chavchavadze, which, of course, simplified and accelerated the rapprochement.
In 1937, journalists recorded a meeting between Alexander Kazem-Bek and Ignatieff in the Royal Paris cafe, which caused a serious scandal among Russian emigrants, which ended with the forced resignation of Kazem-Bek from the post of leader of the Young Russian party. All this took place, on the one hand, against the background of kidnappings and murders among Russian emigrants, flooded with NKVD agents and carried out these abductions, on the other hand - the decision of the French government, which was taken under pressure from the Kremlin, to expel or arrest stateless persons, which included numerous refugees from Soviet Russia.
After the outbreak of World War II, in 1940, Kazem-Bek was arrested and placed in a camp, from where he was released in 1942. He and his family managed to move to the United States. But not in full. Alexander's father, Lev Kazem-Beck, was imprisoned in the Camp Compiegne in 1941, released, and after the end of World War II, in 1947, repatriated by the Allies to the USSR. In 1949 he was arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan, where he died of starvation.
Alexandra's brother-in-law, Mikhail Chavchavadze, who introduced Alexander to Ignatieff, who returned from exile in the USSR and was, like Alexander Kazem-Bek, one of the leaders of the Young Russian Party, was accused by the Soviet government of working for Western intelligence and sentenced to 25 years in prison. His family members were exiled to Kazakhstan.
In the United States, Alexander taught Russian at Yale University, headed the Department of Russian Language and Literature at Connecticut College in New London for a while, and participated in the "Third Hour" religious-philosophical society, which was headed by Elena Izvolskaya, daughter of Alexander Izvolsky, a Russian diplomat and ambassador to the Tsarist government in various countries, including from 1910 to 1917 in France.
But there was also a behind-the-scenes side of Alexander Kazem-Bek's life: since 1937, when he "acquainted" with Ignatieff and was actively used by the soviet secret services. In 1957, in connection with this, he was obviously late interested in the FBI, and Alexander, having previously received the consent of his curators, hastily fled to the USSR, leaving in America a wife and two children.
In General Philip Bobkov's book The Last Twenty Years. Yuri Andropov, the former first deputy chairman of the Soviet KGB, mentioned repeated meetings and conversations with Kaz-Bek.
Staff scout Alexander Sokolov in the book "Superkrot in the KGB", recalling Kazem-Bek, reported that he hired him to work in the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate. So there can be no doubt that Alexander Kazem-Bek cooperated with Soviet intelligence before returning to the USSR.
When he returned, Kazem-Bek published a "repentable letter" in Pravda about his fate, and then wrote a series of articles about "spiritual America." The articles were printed in the Literary Newspaper, which, like his place of work, the Department of External Church Relations (OVCC) of the Moscow Patriarchate, was overseen by KGB units under Bobkov's command.
Officially, Kazem-Beck served as an interpreter. In fact, he was the right hand and referencer of Metropolitan Nicodemus (Rotova), who had ties to foreign churches. Kazem-Bek had an open account in the prestigious Moscow restaurant "Prague". He and his new family (he was married in the USSR by church marriage, his chosen one was 18 years old, he was 50) was given an apartment in an elite house on the Frunzensky embankment, where the responsible employees of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR lived.
His wife, who was dependent on two children in the United States, did not know about his second marriage, sent him to Moscow at the request of his husband everything he had asked for without receiving any material support in return. When the deception finally came to light, the ex-wife sent a letter to patriarch Alexia asking if it was true that her husband now has a second wife. On January 15, 1967, the patriarch replied:
"I can't tell you anything about Kazem-Bek, because I don't know the intimate aspects of his life. I love him very much. He's a lovely, well-mannered man, and I see him a lot. He helps us a lot in our relations with different foreign delegations... Alexis."
The KGB of the USSR saw in the letter of the American wife Kazem-Bek machinations of U.S. intelligence services. In order to resist them, a priest, a member of the Moscow Patriarchate Boris Kudinkin, a handsome man who was an agent of the Soviet state security, was sent to meet with her. Vera Reshchikova, who worked with Kudinkin in the patriarchy, recalled:
"He was a scoundrel... He was a spy. He lured the women, and the KGB agents who hid in the next room took pictures of them. One of his victims, a Czech, complained to the consulate of her country. Despite the scandal, he continued to work at the OVCC."
Mireille Massip. "Truth is the Daughter of Time"
The famous American author John Barron in his book about the KGB details how Kudinkin seduced the secretary of the Dutch Embassy in Moscow. This woman, already old, fell under his "Slavic charm" and then fell into depression and was recalled by her government. A year later, while working in one of the capitals in the Middle East, KGB agents contacted her. Then she confessed to her superiors what happened in Moscow and what role her young lover Kudinkin played in all this.
Special services and the Chavchavadze clan
Mikhail Chavchavadze (alexander Kazem-Beka's brother-in-law) was born in 1898 in the Russian Empire. He graduated from the Page Corps and was released before the February Revolution of 1917 by the cornet in the Lab Guard of the Konno-Grenadier Regiment. He participated in the First World War.
After the Bolsheviks seized Georgia, he went to France, where he was one of the leaders of the Young Russian Party, which united young Russian monarchists. As we mentioned, in 1947 he returned with his family to the USSR, was arrested and sentenced to 25 years of camps. He was rehabilitated in 1956. He died in Tbilisi in 1965. He was buried in the ancestral tomb of the Ilyinsk Church in Kvareli.
Chavchavadze is the son of Mikhail Chavchavadze and nephew of Alexander Kazem-Beka. He was born in German-occupied Paris in 1943, and at the age of six, in 1949 was exiled to Kazakhstan as the son of an "enemy of the people."
"It was 1956. My father, who returned with his family after the war from emigration to the USSR and paid for this conviction for 25 years Gulag, fell under Khrushchev's rehabilitation and came for us from the polar inta to the South Kazakhstan exile, in which we were in the status of the family of the "enemy of the people." Having beaten all the desire to work for the Soviet power, the rehabilitated "enemy of the people" took us to Alma-Ata, where he got a job in the office of Archbishop Alexis (then the governor of the Kazakh diocese).
"The Memorial Book of the Russian Nobility" (Book 3. 2009)
In 1969 he graduated from the Faculty of Western European Philology at Tbilisi State University and in 1969-1971 he worked as a senior researcher at the Georgian Research Institute of Scientific Information in Tbilisi. From 1971 to 1989, he was a senior lecturer in the Department of New Teaching at Georgian State University.
In 1990 he became one of the organizers of the Russian Nobility Assembly (Union of Descendants of the Russian Nobility) and at the III All-Russian Monarchical Congress (July 22-23, 1995) was elected chairman of the board of the Supreme Monarchist Council (Navy).
Chavchavadze had an obvious influence on the so-called 'Orthodox Chekists'. Here is another fragment of his memoir:
"I personally know Igor Strelkov, and I know Sasha Beard from diapers, as they say. We were very close friends with his father Yuri Mefodievich Borodai, a major philosopher, Doctor of Science. I have known Sasha since I was a young man, watching him grow up with delight. He was a very young boy when his parents passed away. Then he graduated from Moscow University, and then went to war. In both Chechen campaigns he was a correspondent for the newspaper "Tomorrow" newspaper ." I was proud to read his front notes... It was Beard who introduced me to his closest friend Igor Strelkov, with whom fate made him friends in the Chechen war.
By the way, in 1996 or 1997 my father Tikhon (Shevkunov) and I flew to Chechnya, to Khankala, and took humanitarian aid to our military contingent there. It was a gift for Easter from the parishioners of the Sreten monastery... Father Tikhon brought the main gift in the form of his choir, which sings beautifully, not only spiritual chants, but also wonderful Russian folk songs. And these songs were listened to in Khankala by our generals, officers and soldiers. When the choir of the Sreten monastery sang right on the field in Khankala, many sobbed... We lived there for two days together with the generals, and there were representatives of all services - the FSB, the Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Defense. And then one day after dinner I was told by a few generals about the valiant officer Strelkov, who in addition to fighting as a knight, also a terrific strategist, and they really appreciate his advice. So when Sasha Beard introduced me to him, I was already prepared."
"Novorossiya caressing my ear," Russian People's Line, August 8, 2014
Close and closed circle: The long-term parishioner of the Church of the Holy Martyr Tatiana at Moscow State University, where the agent of the Soviet/Russian special services Vigilyansky served, was an Orthodox businessman Konstantin Malofeev, part of a close circle of the agent of the Russian special services father Tikhon (Shevkunov). Malofeev's spiritual father since his teenage years was the "monarchist" zurab Chavchavadze, a friend and mentor from the young years of his father Tikhon.
Exhibition of books by YMCA-Press as a KGB project
In 1978, the chairman of the KGB of the USSR Yuri Andropov on the recommendation of General Yevgeny Pitovranov issued an order to form in the First Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR (external intelligence) a special unit, working exclusively on Soviet emigration. It was division number 19. Since the late 1980s it has been headed by Colonel Yuri Mitkavchus. The task of this unit was to create reliable intelligence positions, especially among second- and third-generation emigrants who were part of the establishment of the countries of residence.
As part of this activity, the 19th KGB Department in Moscow in 1990 hosted an unprecedented event: an exhibition of books by YMCA-Press, which published works abroad, which were banned for publication in the USSR.
YMCA-Press, an Orthodox, cultural publishing house of the Russian book, was founded in 1921 in Prague and worked in Berlin in 1923 and in Paris from 1925 to 1940. In 1944 it was recreated in Paris by the efforts of Russian expat public figure Ivan Morozov. In 1925-1948 its director was Nikolai Berdyaev, from 1948 - Ivan Morozov, who ran the publishing house until 1978, when he was ousted by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who was sent to the West, became the formal "co-founder" of the publishing house and in this capacity stated that Morozov "did not show a publishing gift" coming from a "peasant family in Estonia."
Morozov hanged himself. The publishing house was headed by Nikita Struve, grandson of the Russian philosopher and politician Peter Struve.
And in 1990, an exhibition of the publishing house was held in Moscow at the State Library of Foreign Literature. Victor Moskvin initiated and organized the exhibition. The exhibition marked the beginning of the return to the homeland of the historical and literary heritage of Russian emigration.
But Moskvin could not initiate and organize an exhibition of the foreign publishing house "IMA-Press" on his own in 1990. In solving such issues in the Soviet Union have always been involved its highest power structures - the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, industry ministries and the KGB of the USSR.
Indeed, in the organization of the exhibition, Moskvin, in his own words, was helped by his old friend Boris Mikhailov:
"Immediately after school in 1973 I came to work at the Ostankin Palace Museum. My colleague was Boris Mikhailov. He shared the views of A.I. Solzhenitsyn, met with him. Boris Borisovich introduced me to banned literature, both expat and samizdatovsky. After the release of the Gulag Archipelago, B. Mikhailov published an open letter in the West in support of Alexander Isaevich."
Boris Mikhailov was born on December 4, 1941 in Moscow. In 1959 he graduated from school, entered the history department of Moscow State University (Department of History and Art Theory, evening department). He served three years in a group of Soviet troops in Germany. After the army he recovered from the university, graduated and worked as the director of the traveling exhibition Irkutsk-Ivanovo.
In 1970-1973 he studied at the graduate school of Moscow State University, the thesis "The methodology of Soviet art knowledge of the 1920s" (defended in 1988). He's a Ph.D. in art. For 17 years he worked in the Ostankino Manor Museum. On January 23, 1974, he issued a statement in support of A.I. Solzhenitsyn. He took part in the activities of the Russian Public Fund to help political prisoners and their families.
In the autumn of 1983 he declared himself the steward of the foundation, but a week later he resigned. In 1991 he was ordained a deacon and priest of the Church of the Nativity of John the Forerunner on Presna, in 1993 - a presbytery. The abbot of the Church of the Cover of Our Lady in Philae, a member of the diocesan art commission of the Moscow Patriarchate.
There is a list of citizens who participated in the activities of the Russian Public Fund to help political prisoners and their families. It does not have Boris Mikhailov (although his official biography says otherwise). To understand the reason for this discrepancy, we will provide readers with another quote, taken from an interview with the widow of the last head of the foundation Andrei Kistyakovsky (1936-1987) Marina Shemahansky, published in the magazine "My Moscow" (2008, No.2):
"Among the people close to us was Borya Mikhailov. He wanted to head the foundation several times, but for some reason he was not approved by the Solzhenitsyns. And so, after the operation, when Andrei has already returned to normal life and continued to work in the fund, one day comes Borya ... (Andrew was not home)... takes my hand and, literally chasing a step, introduces me to the room in which we... never talked. And he starts talking about the fact that he takes over the management of the fund. Because Andrei got sick and so on... I said to him, "Borya, you're crazy, you can't talk here!" "Because Kistyakovsky-Shemakhan's apartment was bugged by the KGB- V. Popov" - and dragged him up the stairs. But no, he stubbornly arranged everything he wanted in the room and then immediately left. We had been with him before on very good terms and with his family communicated, he was a believer. Mikhailov passed this statement to Solzhenitsyn. And they (in Vermont, where Solzhenitsyn lived at that time) said that Andrei gave up the management of the fund because of illness and now the head of the fund - Boris Mikhailov. He soon had a search, and a few days later he refused to be a steward, saying that his confessor had forbidden him, say, the foundation is a sinful matter. So the fund was broken. After that, Borea Mikhailov and I didn't communicate any more... Then the man who worked with him in the Ostankino Museum said to me out of touch with the foundation, "Do you not know that he communicates with the authorities?" Later, Natalia Dmitrievna (Solzhenitsina) received a message that she was apologizing for the fact that they had given a message too quickly about the change of management of the foundation and, most importantly, did not contact Andrei on this issue."
Viktor Moskvin was born on January 5, 1955 in the Moscow region. Russian historian, cultural figure, publisher. In 1973-1975 he was a researcher at the Ostankin Palace Museum. In 1978 he graduated from the Faculty of History of Kalinin State University. In 1979-1982 he worked at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, in 1982-1992 - in the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino (GBIL), where he went from a junior researcher to deputy director general.
Hardly anyone will have any doubts about Mikhailov's connection with the KGB. But only one of their common acquaintance with Shemakhan, Moskvin, who was introduced to Mikhailov's banned literature in the USSR, could know about it. Moreover, both Mikhailov and his young colleague Moskvin were recruited by officers of the 9th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate of the USSR, who were fighting the dissident movement. They were recruited and worked with them as agents by the same staff member. Reporting Shemakhan's cooperation with the KGB, Moskvin withdrew suspicions about his own ties with state security, but, according to the KGB canons, an obvious crime.
All the heads of the Foundation for the Assistance of Political Prisoners were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment. In addition to the foundation's leaders, many of its activists have also been prosecuted. And only Mikhailova this bitter cup has passed. He got away with an official warning.
In Soviet times, there was a form of implementation of developments by state security agencies of persons engaged in illegal activities: arrest, followed by investigation, trial and official warning that if such activities continue, criminal prosecution will follow. Then there was recruitment as an agent of the KGB bodies. Sometimes recruitment followed an official warning.
Only "friendship" with the KGB can explain the fact that Mikhailov avoided criminal prosecution as head of the Solzhenitsyn Foundation. Being on a note to the KGB, Mikhailov then became a priest and received a parish in the center of Moscow on Red Presna. And this despite the fact that the entire Moscow Patriarchate from top to bottom was riddled with state security agents and places in Moscow were truly tidbits.
So the initiator of the unprecedented exhibition of books of the publishing house "YMCA-Press" in 1990 in Moscow was also the all-powerful KGB. In cases where its leadership considered it appropriate to carry out some significant events, it sent to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union the relevant document, the so-called notes to the court, in which the idea of the action was expressed and the consent of the highest party authority for its implementation was requested.
In order to conceal the interest of the state security in carrying out such events, the initiator was a state body or, as in the case of YMCA-Press, a private person who was a trusted KGB agent of the USSR Moskvin, who spoke on behalf of the All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature, where he then worked.
In 1991, at The Suggestion of Moskvin, a subsidiary of YMCA-Press, the Russian Way publishing house, was registered in Moscow, where Moskvin became CEO. In 1995, a significant part of the manuscripts, letters and autographs from the archives of the immigrant publishing house "YMKA-Press", published during the decades of its activities by all the immigrant authors known to us today, was transferred to the Moscow Library-Fund "Russian Abroad", the founder of which the director of the publishing house "YMCA-Press" Nikita Struve became together with the Russian Public Foundation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the government of Moscow. At the same time, with the support and participation of Solzhenitsyn, Struve and the Moscow city authorities, a Public Library was organized - the Russian Abroad Foundation (now the state budget cultural institution "House of Russian Abroad named after Alexander Solzhenitsyn").
The previous part was published on July 15. The next one will be released on July 29.
All published parts of Vladimir Popov's book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" can be read here..
RE: KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCO h.1 - Metropolitan Agafangel 31.07.2020 13:54
Metropolitan MP Tikhon (Shevkunov) - KGB agent.
In principle, it was always clear, but now this fact has received official confirmation. I remember when at the All-Peace Meeting in Nayak, New York, in December 2003, the KGB was talking about the KGB-shning past and the present of Alexia II, Shevkunov suddenly jumped on the podium and with Komsomol fervor said that Riediger had never cooperated with the KGB. I remember how everyone in the audience felt ashamed of, then the archimandrite MP, Tikhon.
* PLEASE! WAKE UP!: For the fools who are in slavish obedience to the Communist Front: The Stalin founded in 1943 Moscow Patriarchy: More evidence of what the communist MP and the current Putin Government are all about:
KGB Lieutenant Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCOR
Author: Metropolitan Agafangel. Publish Date: . Category: History of theROC.
Notes of a former KGB lieutenant colonel: Russian Orthodox Church Abroad and agents of Soviet special services
One of the authors of the book KGB plays chess and former employee of the State Security Committee of the USSR Vladimir Popov recently completed work on his memoirs. In the book Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel he tells about the formation of the regime of Russian President Vladimir Putin, his associates, his work in the committee and key events to which the Soviet special services were involved. Previously, the book was not published. With the author's consent, GORDON exclusively publishes chapters from it. In this part Popov writes about KGB agents in the religious communities of the USSR and abroad.
Vladimir POPOV
KGB and Russian Orthodox Church abroad
As we have already written, the Soviet government was concerned about the idea of uniting the Moscow Patriarchate controlled by the authorities with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCA), or rather the idea of eliminating this anti-Soviet foreign Orthodox church structure under the guise of unification.
The 4th (church) department of the 5th KGB Department worked hard in this direction, using its numerous agents embedded in the Russian Orthodox Church and other religious organizations in the USSR and abroad. Reports about this agency-operational activity were received monthly by the management of the 5th KGB department and were folded into salad-colored folders under the label "Secret" and "Top Secret." Here are some excerpts from these documents eloquently describing this activity:
1967. "At the meetings of the executive committee and the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches in September this year on the island of Crete, agents Sviatoslav, Voronov, Antonov and others spoke to condemn the aggressive actions of the United States in Vietnam and Israel in the Middle East. The delegation of the Russian Orthodox Church voted against the resolutions on Vietnam and the Middle East proposed by representatives of Western churches and demanded to discuss the situation of blacks in the United States."
August 1969. "Our agency was able to promote Agent Kuznetsov to a senior position in the World Council of Churches."
1980. "Active Baptist schismatic Hailo convicted on Art. 190, p. 1 of the Criminal Code of the RSFSR and sent to a psychiatric hospital for compulsory treatment. Agent Pavel, who is sent to Irkutsk, will be promoted to the leadership position in the Russian Orthodox Church."
1982. "Currently around the country... 229 churchmen and sectarians are serving their sentences (in 1981 there were 220). In addition, 18 people are in exile (in 1981 - 24). The KGB authorities conducted more than 2,500 cases of operational accounting on hostile elements of this category of citizens (in 1981 - 2225). The most significant results are expressed in the following: through the leading agents of the Russian Orthodox, Georgian and Armenian churches are firmly held in positions of loyalty... During the period 1982, 1,809 meetings were held and 704 were received. 13 turnout and 2 safe houses are used to work with the agency. Deputy Head of the 4th Division Colonel Romanov."
1983. "In Moscow, from September 28 to October 3, this year, the publishing department of the Moscow Patriarchate hosted a meeting of representatives of the church press, in which 12 foreigners participated... Through agents Abbot and Gregory, foreigners were politically advantageous. The head of the 4th division, Colonel Romanov."
1987. "Agent Potemkin took part in a meeting of the Central Committee of the World Council of Churches, held in Germany. He received data on the situation at the headquarters of the organization, about the upcoming personnel changes in the leadership of its units ...
TT was sent to the GDR together with friends (NRB, RNR, GDR, Cuba, CHSSR) to counterintelligence support the committee meeting, to continue the work of the Christian Peace Conference and to conduct intelligence-operational activities together with friends (NRB, RNR, GDR, Cuba, CHSSR). 12 agents of state security agencies were sent there by V.N. and Spiridonov. During the event, attempts of provocative attacks against churches of socialist countries were neutralized, unprofitable personnel changes were not allowed, politically advantageous final documents were adopted... The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
1988. "For the first time as part of the Soviet delegation, an agent of the Adamant from among the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church took part in the general session of UNESCO... Five personal and working cases were considered for agents of territorial bodies recommended for promotion to the leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church. The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
August 1988. "According to the DOR ,the case of operational development" "Apothecary" carried out measures aimed at further compromising the object in front of like-minded people and connections in the West... Through the agency and other opportunities managed to persuade the wife of the Pharmacist to apply to the court for a divorce from him ... The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
1989. "At the service facility "Publishing Department of the Moscow Patriarchate" installed agent Vila ... Released and distributed in the church and near-church environment, the next issue of the magazine "Word" published under the control of our agency. The head of the 4th Division, Colonel Timoshevsky."
According to the KGB itself, the "leading agents" included the following agents:
Mikhailov - Vladimir Gundayev, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia;
Abbot - Metropolitan Volokalamsky and Yurievsky Pitirim;
Adamant - Metropolitan Juvenal;
Antonov - Metropolitan of Kiev Filaret;
Ostrovsky - Metropolitan Of Minsk Filaret;
Topaz - Archbishop Of Kaluga Clement;
Chrysostom - Archbishop of Vilnius;
The reader is the head of the Latvian Orthodox Church Kudryashov;
Kuznetsov - Aleksey Buevsky, foreign affairs officer of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Nesterovich - Borovoy Vitaly, honorary abbot of the Moscow Church of the Resurrection of the Word on the Assumption Enemy;
Sviatoslav - Boris Nikodim-Rotov; in 1970, he was assigned to interim management of the patriarchal parishes of the Americas; then headed the department of external church relations of the Russian Orthodox Church;
Anatoly - Ivan Miroljubov, a member of the department of external church relations of the Moscow Patriarchate;
Yverieli – Catholic
Petrov - Piotr Kuzmich Raina, exarch of the Patriarch of Moscow under the Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa;
Ravens - Arkady Rodionovich Tyschuk, cleric of St. Nicholas Orthodox Cathedral in New York (1977-1982);
Fyodor - Ivan Borcha, priest of rural parishes of Ukrainian and Romanian communities of the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan (early 1970s);
Patriot - Victor Petlchenko, cleric of the Orthodox parish of Edmonton, the capital of the Canadian province of Alberta;
Icarus - Igor Vladimirovich Suzemel, Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Vienna and Austrian;
Esaulenko - Joseph Pustotov, served in Orthodox churches in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France. In 1976, he was appointed head of the Moscow Patriarchate at the headquarters of the Christian Peace Conference (HMC) in Prague;
Vladimir - Nikolai Tserpitsky, personal secretary of Metropolitan Nicodemus;
Simonov is the Archbishop of Cyprian ,Gernov), the abbot of the Church of All Mourners on the street of the Great Ordynka in Moscow.
It came to anecdotal: in 1983, one of the leaders of the Buddhist church, Agent Sayan, was awarded the KGB certificate of the USSR "for many years of cooperation and active assistance to the state security agencies."
For the purpose of conspiracy, the KGB gave nicknames not only to its agents, but also to those who were "objects of operational surveillance, accounting or development." The man hidden under the pseudonym Apothecary is Alexander Ogorodnikov, a religious dissident with whom the KGB fought.
Priest Alexander Meng had the nickname Missionary, academic Andrei Sakharov - Asket, his wife Elena Bonner - Fox, writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn, as we mentioned, Spider.
ROCO and the First Congress of Compatriots
On August 19, 1991, during the SCCP, the First Congress of Compatriots was held in Moscow, the real initiator of which was the KGB of the USSR. One of the prominent participants of the Congress was the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexis II, who a year ago was promoted to this position by the 4th Division of the 5th KGB Directorate.
International events in general and congresses of compatriots in particular, with enviable regularity held in Moscow since August 1991, from the point of view of the KGB presented a convenient opportunity for the use of forum participants in the interests of state security. The study of those who were subsequently invited as a member of the Congress began long before the event. The Congress itself became the culmination of the processing and recruitment by the special services of the participant of interest to them. Such activities have sooner or later paid off.
Thus, in August 1991, Patriarch Alexis II during the Congress of Compatriots in Moscow, received Gleb Rahr, a well-known Russian immigrant, a long-time employee of Radio Liberty, one of the figures of the ROCOR, and through him passed to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church [MP] a proposal to reunite the ROCOR with the ROC with the preservation of full autonomy for the ROCOR (this proposal was then rejected by the Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church).
In November 1991, Patriarch Alexis II made an official visit to the United States. At his invitation, Father Alexander (Kiselev) took part in a joint prayer service at St. Nicholas Cathedral in New York, the main cathedral of patriarchal parishes in the United States. The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Vitaly, categorically objected to the joint prayer service of representatives of the two churches, who have completely opposite views on the existing political system in the USSR, and repeatedly reproached Fr. Alexander: "You are with us, but you are not ours." Indeed, in 1991, Alexander returned to Russia and settled in the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow (within the walls of which he completed his life on October 3, 2001).
In January 1992, the Synod of Bishops of the ROCOR sent to Russia the vicar of the Western European Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop Cannes Barnabas, with an order to organize a permanent synodal compound in Moscow, which would feed parishioners on behalf of the ROCOR. Barnabas opened a courtyard of the ROCOR in one of the buildings of the Marfo-Marinsky monastery, which belonged to the city's polyclinic. There is also the unofficial headquarters of the National Patriotic Front "Memory" headed by the agent of the 5th KGB directorate Dmitry Vasilyev and then replaced by the agent of the 5th KGB directorate Alexander Barkashov.
Of course, the "neighborhood" of the ROCOR and the radical, nationalist and anti-Semitic organization "Memory" was rigged by the state security and caused enormous damage to the reputation of the ROCOR in Russia. In June 1993, a religious dissident, Shechmalnikova wrote that "the connection between the ROCOR and Memory gives an absolute victory for the Moscow Patriarchate over the foreign church."
The confrontation with the Moscow Patriarchate in the reunification of churches was accompanied by a number of intra-church scandals, one of which was the scandal with the proto-priest Alexey Averyanov (1952 year of birth). In 1990, Averyanov voluntarily transferred to the jurisdiction of the ROCOR.
In response, by decree of Metropolitan Krutitsky and Kolomensky Juvenal (agent Adamant) for No.1217 of September 17, 1990, Alexey "for the arbitrary abandonment of the parish until the clarification of the circumstances and repentance" was forbidden in the priesthood, but continued to stay in the ROCOR, where he was soon elevated to the proto-priest.
Then, on June 26, 1992, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church received a written statement by Natalia Osinova accusing Alexey Averyanov of "violating the moral laws of the sanctity of marriage," "seduction and cohabitation with her in fornication for four months."
As a result, by decree of Metropolitan Vitali for No.11/35/152 of November 6, 1992, the proto-priest Alexey Averyanov was banned in the priesthood, the complex of the Marfo-Marinsky monastery was handed over by the moscow government by a decree of the Moscow Patriarchate, and the ROCOR split into supporters and opponents of Metropolitan Vitali. The latter lost his post, which he held for many years, and the ROCOR was successfully and finally absorbed by the Moscow Patriarchate.
Gleb Rahr
In 2011, Gleb Rahr's memoirs were published in the Russian Way publishing house in Moscow. And our generation will give stories a record.' In his foreword, Dmitry Stolypin (grandson of Prime Minister Piotr Stolypin) wrote:
"To perpetuate the memory of Gleb Rahr and draw attention to the testimony of his whole life, I would like to cite here what my father Arkady Stolypin wrote about him in his memoirs. My father fondly remembers Gleb Aleksandrovich and his half-brother Leo as "my friends of Rara," he describes in detail the long-term cooperation with Gleb Aleksandrovich and how they fought together for a free, united Russia in the foreign sector of the People's Labour Union of Russian Solidarityists - NTS. Arkady Petrovich from 1954 to 1960 he was in charge of the foreign sector of the NTS and had a valuable friend and associate in Glebe.
For the NTS, these were times saturated with important events, such as the appearance in the ranks of the NTS Captain Nikolai Khokhlov, a former KGB officer who abandoned the criminal mission, and even earlier - the kidnapping of the same KGB Dr. Trusnovich, the head of his created committee of the NTS to help refugees from the East. My father wrote how Gleb Aleksandrovich accompanied the wife of the kidnapped Dr. Trushnovich to Geneva, where she begged Molotov to release her husband...
Then my father told about the activities of Gleb Aleksandrovich in the Russian section of Radio Liberty in Munich, starting in 1975, and about his religious and historical broadcasts... With his broad culture and deep faith, he left an unforgettable imprint on the life of the brotherhood of St. Vladimir, and his actions were one of the sources of future dialogue between both parts of the Russian Church."
Gleb Rahr was born in 1922 in Moscow in a merchant family. His grandfather Alexander Rahr was the director of the Moscow branch of the insurance company "Russia" which owned the famous building on Lubyanka No.2, occupied since 1919 by the state security agencies.
Father Alexander Rahr (1885-1952) was an officer and fought on the Galician front in World War I. Natalia's mother was from the old merchant family of Yudin. Her brother Sergey Yudin was a well-known surgeon, awarded many honorary titles and awards.
As Rarov's ancestors came from Estonia, the family moved to Estonia in 1924, from there to Latvia, where Gleb Rahr graduated from german gymnasium. After the occupation of Latvia by the Red Army, Raram managed to leave for Germany with the German settlers thanks to the German surname in 1941.
Since 1942, Gleb Rahr studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Breslavla (now Wroclaw), joined the National Labor Union (NTS) - the future People's Labour Union of Russian Solidarityists. Established by the young generation of white emigrants in 1930 in Belgrade, this organization during germany's war with the Soviet Union supported the Russian Liberation Movement (ROD), but in order to end the influence of the NTS on rod, the German authorities in June 1944 arrested a number of NTS members, including Rahr.
He was first imprisoned in the Gestapo prison in Breslaula, then in the concentration camps of Gross-Rosen, Saxenhausen, Schlieb, Buchenwald, Langenzaltz, and finally Dachau, from which he was liberated by American forces on April 29, 1945.
After the war, Rara settled in Hamburg, where Gleb graduated from the university's architecture department, actively participated in church life and was secretary to the bishop of the Russian Foreign Church in the British zone of occupation of Germany Nathaniel (Lviv). Since the end of 1947, Rahr worked in the expat publishing house "Syved" in Frankfurt-on-Main.
From 1949 to 1950 he and his family were in Morocco and had been working for the NTS in Germany since 1950. From 1957 to 1960 - on the radio station "Free Russia" in Formosa (Taiwan), from 1960 to 1963 he directed russian-language programs of Japanese radio and the Far Eastern department of the American University of Maryland. From 1963 to 1974 he again worked in the publishing house "Syvest" in Frankfurt, was a member of the editorial board of the magazine "Sow" and on the board of ntS. From 1974 to 1995 he worked for Radio Liberty in Munich.
Sofia and Gleb Rahr on the Chinese radio station Free Russia. Taipei, 1959. Photo: rp-net.ru
Rahr advocated the reunification of the ROCOR with the Moscow Patriarchate and in August 1991, as we have already indicated, arrived in Moscow to participate in the Congress of compatriots. A man with such a biography could not visit the Soviet Union, become a member of the First Congress of Compatriots and get an audience with the KGB agent Patriarch Alexis II without the consent of the all-knowing KGB of the USSR, especially since Rara decided to use as a special envoy to the hierarchs of the ROCR with a proposal to reunite churches divided by the Bolshevik coup. This was a testament to the deep trust in Rahr on the part of the Soviet (then Russian) authorities, based on his long unspoken cooperation with them.
In 2001, shortly after Putin became president, Gleb Rahr and his wife were granted Russian citizenship at Putin's direction.
On October 11-12, 2001, the World Congress of Compatriots opened in the Column Hall of the House of Unions in Moscow, attended by delegates from 47 countries and prominent Russian politicians. In his opening speech, Putin used the term "Russian world" for the first time and outlined the directions on which relations between the Russian Federation and foreign compatriots were to be built in the future, calling for the search for ways to consolidate the Russian diaspora and strengthen its ties with Russia.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's speech at the World Congress of Compatriots. October 11, 2001. Photo: en.kremlin.ru
The practical result of this activity was demonstrated in 2014, when Russia invaded Ukraine. On December 22, 2014, an article entitled "Solidarity with Russia" appeared on the Russian Bridge website, created in 2010 by a group of representatives of the descendants of white emigration in France. The text, which signed more than a hundred descendants of Russian emigration living in Europe, said: "We in no way refuse to defend the values on which we were brought up by our ancestors, doomed to exile after the revolution of 1917. We do not refuse to condemn the criminal acts of the Bolsheviks and their successors, nor to restore the historical truth about that terrible time. But this does not mean that we can accept the daily slander against modern Russia, its leadership and its president, who are subject to sanctions and mixed with dirt contrary to basic common sense. This self-destructive ridiculous idea for European countries makes all those who see it as the West's desire to hinder Russia's development rather than to resolve the crisis in Ukraine."
Alexander Melnik
In 1992, the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle, which is a public organization, was established in Moscow. The Foundation's website announced that it was "implementing projects aimed at forming a positive attitude towards the traditional, binding foundations of Russia - the state, the church, the army" - and that the foundation "stands for awakening in a person the spiritual foundations firmly connected with the history and culture of the people." One of the main activities of the foundation was "bringing Orthodox shrines to the Russian Orthodox Church." The founder of the foundation was Alexander Melnik.
Alexander Melnik (centre pictured). Photo: synod.com
At the time of registration of his foundation, Melnik was a correspondent for the Chisinau newspaper Evening Chisinau. At the same time as the Foundation, Melnik registered in Moscow the publishing house "Andreevsky Flag" founded with the support of the newly created foundation and specializing in "the production of Orthodox, military, maritime, historical literature" and the interregional public foundation "Center for National Glory." All three structures were decorated at: Moscow, Great Ordynka Street, house 35 (594 sq m square).
It is not known how The Chisinau Melnik managed to get this building. But if you compare a few facts, a lot of things will become obvious. The building with the address of Ordynka, 35 is almost adjacent to the complex of buildings with the address of Ordynka, 34, where before the revolution was located The Martha-Marian monastery - a convent of the Russian Orthodox Church, founded by grand duchess Elizabeth Fedorovna in 1909.
On May 7, 1918, Elizaveta Fedorovna was arrested by the Chekists, but the monastery continued its activities as a clinic, which served sisters under the guidance of Princess Golitsina. The princess was then arrested by the Chekists. Some of the sisters were sent to Turkestan, while others moved to the Tver region, where they set up a vegetable farm.
After the closure of the monastery in its cathedral (Pokrovskaya Cathedral) in accordance with the communist traditions of those years was opened a cinema, and later - a house of sanitary education. The Marfo-Marinsky Church has an outpatient clinic named after Professor F.A. Rein, a branch of the CECUBU. After the Great Patriotic War, the building of the Pokrovsk Temple was transferred to the State Restoration Workshops (later the All-Russian Art Research and Restoration Center named after Igor Grabar).
So the registration of Melnyk in the same 1992 within the Marfo-Marinsky monastery, which has already housed the Moscow compound of the RUSSIAN Orthodox Church, and the headquarters of the NPF "Memory" headed by Dmitry Vasilyev and Alexander Barkashov, was not an accident. Behind all this were influential puppeteers from the state security, especially Philip Bobkov, who used his long-term contacts with the agent of the 5th KGB directorate of the USSR Gavriil Popov, who became the first mayor of Moscow, and replaced him By Yuri Luzhkov.
With their help, Bobkov easily solved the issues of allocation of Moscow real estate to non-state structures in which he was personally interested. And the abode itself, which was revived after 1991 and gathered hundreds of sisters, was soon destroyed as a result of the raider's seizure of the building on the Great Ordynka, conducted by the public company "Russian Railways" (Russian Railways), whose president was another high-ranking officer of the Russian special services Vladimir Yakunin.
The Foundation of Andrei the First-Called and The Metamorphosis of Sergei Shchebligin
The Foundation of Andrei the First-Called soon became quite a solid organization. The foundation's board of trustees was headed by the then chairman of the Federation Council, Egor Stroyev. At that time he maintained friendly relations with patriarch Alexis II, became interested in Orthodoxy, and one of the founders of the foundation Sergei Shchebligin, a countryman and adviser to Stroyev, helped him a lot. According to the former deputy governor of the Orlov region, Alexei Bogomolov, Shcheblygin's duties included the preparation of reviews of book innovations and trends of social and political thought for Stroev.
Egor Stroyev was born in 1937 in the village of Dudkino in the Khotinets district of Orlovsk region. In 1954 he worked as a shepherd in the collective farm "Progress" of khotinets district. From 1956 to 1957 he was a foreman in the collective farm Progress. In 1958 he joined the Communist Party. Elected secretary of the party bureau of the collective farm. He received his first higher education in absentia at the Michurin Fruit and Vegetable Institute with a degree in agronomist-gardening.
From 1963 to 1965 he was deputy secretary of the party committee, head of the ideological department of the party committee of the Uritsky District Industrial Collective Farm And Farm Department of Orlovsk Region. From 1965 to 1969 he was secretary of the Khotinets district committee of the CPSU Orlovsk region. From 1969 to 1970 he was the second secretary of the Cpsu district committee.
From 1970 to 1973 he was the chairman of the executive committee of the Pokrov district council, then - the first secretary of the Pokrov district committee of the CPSU Orlovsk region. From 1973 to 1984 he was secretary of the Orlovsky Regional Committee of the CPSU. From 1984 to 1985 he was an instructor of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. From 1985 to 1989 he was the first secretary of the Orlovsky Regional Committee of the CPSU. He has been a member of the CPSU Central Committee since 1986. Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in 1989-1991. Since 1990, he has been a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Sergey Shcheblygin was born in 1956. He is currently a member of the Federation Council of Russia. In 1975-1980 he studied at the historical faculty of Moscow State University at the Department of History of the Communist Party. He graduated with honors. Then he studied there in graduate school. In 1983-1991 he worked as a history teacher of the CPSU at the Higher Party School.
Since 1992, he has been a co-founder of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle. In 1999 he was awarded the Order of Friendship.
Since December 2001 he has been a great commander of the Order of the Orthodox Knights of the Holy Sepulchre. Since 2002 he has been a member of the board of the Russian National Glory Center. In 2004-2005 he was a banker. Since 2005 he has been an assistant to Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin. Since January 19, 2006 - President of the Foundation of St. Andrew the First-Called Apostle and chairman of the board of the charitable foundation of social assistance to children "Spread wings!".
These amazing metamorphoses took place in the life of the communist Shcheblygin, transformed from a specialist in the history of the bloodthirsty CPSU and an atheist into a humble Christian.
Such metamorphosis occurred not only with Shcheblgin. The board of trustees of the Andrei First-Called Foundation at various times included the head of the administration of the Russian President Sergey Ivanov, the former head of the Federal Drug Control Service Viktor Cherkesov, the St. Petersburg governor Georgi Poltavchenko, the former head of the administration of the Russian President Vladimir Kozhin and the deputy prime minister Sergei Prikhodko.
One of the foundation's activities is the annual delivery of the graceful fire from Jerusalem for Easter. In addition, in 2011, the foundation delivered to Russia from Athos the belt of the Virgin, which came to worship hundreds of thousands of Russians in a number of cities of the country, including Putin. And in 2013, the foundation demonstrated a cross delivered to Russia from the holy Mount Athos, where the Apostle Andrei the First-Called was crucified.
The previous part is published on July 22.. Следующая выйдет 5 августа.
All published parts of Vladimir Popov's book "Conspiracy of scoundrels. Notes of the former KGB lieutenant colonel" can be read here..
RE: KGB Colonel Vladimir Popov: KGB and ROCO - Metropolitan Agafangel 30.07.2020 06:16
"In August 1991, Patriarch Alexis II during the Congress of compatriots in Moscow, received Gleb Rahr, a well-known Russian immigrant, a long-time employee of Radio Svoboda, one of the figures of the Russian Orthodox Church, and through him passed to the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church a proposal to reunite the Rocor with the ROCor with the preservation of full autonomy for the ROCOR (this proposal was then rejected by the Metropolitan Of Russia. There's inaccuracy here. KGB agent Alexi-Drozdo was asked to dissolve the Synod of the MP and replace its members with the bishops of the ROCOR. We have in the archive a copy of Rahr's letter to the Synod of the ROCO. The whole procedure took place in the altar of the Epiphany Cathedral (near the tomb of Sergiy Stragorodsky) with the direct participation of deacon Andrey Kuraev (most likely also a KGB agent), who was a representative under Drozdov.
Whether Gleb Rahr was a KGB agent or just a "useful idiot" (as the KGB called their volunteers), it is difficult to say until the documents are opened or there is no direct evidence from former KGB officers.
The fact that Dmitry Vasilyev was a KGB agent was clear even then (as well as the fact that "Memory" itself was created by the KGB).
The answer to the question "who was who" in the ROCOR and engaged in its destruction as an anti-Soviet organization, remains to be heard.
Today it is becoming increasingly clear why people like the Archbishop Mark Arndt, prot. Victor Potapov and all the "activists for Moscow" hated Metropolitan Vitali so much. The Kingdom of Heaven to our fourth First Hierarch!
