1000 years and three days (1988)

The church in St.

Petersburg.

The priest consecrates the water in the font before the baptism of infants.

Meeting of the participants of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod(Ridiger) embraces Metropolitan Theodosius of Washington and New York.

Metropolitan John of Kuibyshev and Syzran (Sychev).

Meeting of foreign guests.

St.

Nicholas-Epiphany Cathedral.

Moleben before the miraculous icon of St.

Nicholas.

Address of the rector of the cathedral to the audience (synchronously).

The clergy venerate the miraculous icon.

A motorcade of cars drives through the city in the rain.

Metropolitan Theodosius, Head of the American Orthodox Church (synchronously)on the relations between the Russian Orthodox Church and the American Orthodox Church.

St.

Isaac's Cathedral.

Meeting of the participants of the Council with the Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Lensovet V.Khodyrev.

V. Khodyrev (synchronously).

The faces of the participants of the meeting.

A motorcade of cars drives up to the Prince Vladimir Cathedral.

Moleben before the miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kazan.

The faces of the parishioners and clergy.

At the end of the prayer service, the clergy kisses the icon.

Smolensk cemetery, a procession with banners.

Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod speaks (synchronously) about the beatification of Blessed Xenia of St.

Petersburg.

Top view of the chapel of Xenia of St.

Petersburg at the Smolensk Cemetery.

The faces of the gathered people.

Priests carry the icon of Xenia of St.

Petersburg.

Metropolitan Alexy consecrates the icon of Blessed Xenia.

The participants of the cathedral came to the Piskarevskoye memorial Cemetery.

Laying a wreath at the monument to the Mother Motherland.

The lobby of the Leningrad Hotel.

A solemn meeting dedicated to the 1000th anniversary of the baptism of Rus.

Metropolitan Alexy of Leningrad and Novgorod (synchronously).

The meeting's presidium.

Metropolitan Alexy on the podium.

The Baptism of Russia by Prince Vladimir (painting by Vasnetsov).

Holy Princess Olga.

Speeches of the meeting participants.

Participants of the anniversary celebrations drive up to the Elagin Palace.

Exhibition " Russian Church Culture.

The Petersburg Period".

Cardinal Carlo Maria Martini, Archbishop of Milan (synchronously).

People at the exhibition.

Paintings at the exhibition.

Leningrad branch of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.Anniversary exhibition.

Women are standing on the balcony.

People in front of the Transfiguration Cathedral waiting for the arrival of the bishops.

Cathedral filled with people (view from the top point).

Evening service.

Holy Trinity Cathedral of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

The clergy dress before the service.

Solemn meeting of the Patriarch of Great Antioch and All the East Ignatius IV.

Panorama of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

The vestment of Patriarch Ignatius IV in liturgical robes.

The Divine Liturgy.

Communion of parishioners.

Archpriest of the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin, Father Vladimir (synchronously).

Saint Prince Vladimir (icon).

A young man (synchronously) about baptism.

A baby in its mother's arms, waiting to be baptized.

Parents with babies in their arms .

A woman about faith (synchronously).

A baby's baptism.

The baptism of an adult woman.