Politician Poklonskaya and the heresy of Tsardom.

Politician Natalya Poklonskaya, having become a deputy of the State Duma of Russia, promised to keep her prosecutor's jacket ready. She kept her promise, and how! For several days now, two provocative statements by Deputy Poklonskaya have captured the information space of Russia.

The indignation of the Russians, especially TWO! generation raised in the USSR, was caused by the scandalous publication of Poklonskaya, where the former prosecutor of Crimea called the leader of the proletariat a “monster”, in which Vladimir Lenin was compared with Adolf Hitler - “Paradoxically, the monsters of the twentieth century (Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Mao Zedong) who spilled the sea human blood, did not cause such rejection as the kind and merciful Sovereign who was killed with his Family,” she asserts.

Internet users wonder why provoke people and humiliate the feelings of entire generations, they remind her that it was with similar slogans that the campaign to demolish monuments to Lenin in Ukraine began and are surprised that it is strange to hear such statements from people sitting in the State Duma. They also ask why Poklonskaya is pitting Russia and China against each other, calling Mao Zedong a “bloody monster”; in China he is very revered and respected.

But the other day, the same Poklonskaya demanded that the Prosecutor's Office conduct a check "in accordance with Articles 144, 146 of the Code of Criminal Procedure in relation to all the figures who created the film "Matilda" directed by Alexei Uchitel. And if signs of insulting the religious feelings of the Orthodox are really established, then the film will be banned "and, accordingly, everyone who was involved should be sent to Mordovian camps. Led by director Uchitel, by the way, who received the Order of Honor from President Putin for his contribution to cinema.

Let's figure out where Poklonskaya saw “signs of insults to the religious feelings of the Orthodox.” Let me remind you of two fascinating points. Firstly, the historical film "Matilda" talks about the love of the heir to the throne, future Emperor Nicholas II to the great ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya. And secondly, deputy Poklonskaya and her colleagues, as it turned out, have not seen the film (no one has seen it yet, since it is in production until next year), and they demand that their bans be applied only on the basis of viewing the advertising trailer. That is, this lady and a certain mysterious movement “Royal Cross”, after watching a minute-long advertising clip, managed to form an opinion about the need to ban the full-scale film.

But now I would like to talk about the main thing in my post, what is this “certain mysterious movement “Royal Cross” and what connects Poklonskaya with this movement. What is behind this publicized provocation?

First, about the formal side of the issue. What are the legal grounds for verification? Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the film, which has not yet been completely shot. The director of the film, Alexey Uchitel, said that the prosecutor’s office had already checked the materials of the film “Matilda” and did not reveal any violations. The Ministry of Culture found no grounds to ban the film's distribution. Poklonskaya’s colleague, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, deputy and director Vladimir Bortko spoke much more harshly about the initiative to check the film: “This is a stupid idea. It has nothing to do with the serious needs of the country and has nothing to do with art. Similar initiatives to the Culture Committee will not pass." Even Ivan Artsishevsky, a representative of the House of Romanov in Russia, stated that Nicholas’s connection with Matilda is a historical fact, and he does not offend anyone’s feelings.

The articles of the Criminal Code under which the request was submitted are 146 (violation of copyright and related rights) and 144 (obstruction of the legitimate related activities of journalists). So the solidarity between the great-grandson of the cook Tsar Multatuli (head of the RISI sector) on the issue of protecting the feelings of believers with Poklonskaya is groundless. Poklonskaya does not defend Christians, but copyright and the rights of journalists. According to Poklonskaya, she wrote a request to check the film because “people contacted her, a decent number of citizens - over a hundred signatures were collected. This film offends their religious feelings. People’s reaction is already signaling that something is wrong there. ... Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich is a saint."

I, an Orthodox person, do not understand what the insult to feelings is. Augustine the Blessed, by the way one of the Fathers of the Church, also, like Nicholas II, was subject to the action of fornication. Augustine the Blessed wrote an autobiographical book, Confessions, which is considered one of the pinnacles of patristics. In it, among other things, he talks in some detail about his extramarital affairs. And it never occurred to anyone to ban it because of these descriptions for one and a half thousand years. This makes us think that it is not Christian religious feelings that require the film to be banned.

It’s not at all clear to me what the copyright violation is if supporters of the ban claim that the film is fake. But the application for verification under Article 144 of the Criminal Code forces us to take a closer look at the news. Which journalists' rights were violated?

Poklonskaya states that the initiative for her appeal to the Prosecutor General came from the Tsar's Cross public association. In addition to the group on the social network VKontakte - https://vk.com/tsarskiy_krest, this social movement has no other representations.

The first entry in the group was made on October 6, 2016, that is the movement is less than a month old !!!. The number of subscribers as of November 2 was 458 people, as of November 3 – 513 people. On the morning of November 2, there was only one contact in the group - the movement coordinator Alexander Porozhnyakov. By evening, the information was updated, Nikolai Mishustin also appeared. On the morning of November 3, Mishustin was appointed as a contact person, and Porozhnyakov as the leader of the movement. We are seeing organizational political work being carried out in an emergency.

Now attention!!! - the political leader of the “Royal Cross” movement, who pulled it out of oblivion, is politician Natalya Poklonskaya.

Let's take a closer look at the formal leader of this political movement - Alexander Porozhnyakov. Let's go to his public page on the social network VKontakte. Let's start studying the page from the winter of 2011-2012.

Let's look at these screenshots.

Porozhnyakov’s political position is clear; it is his legal right to take such a position. But many questions arise for Russian State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. Maybe in Ukraine it is considered normal for a politician to flirt with the Maidan. But in Russia this is impossible for a federal-level politician, a member of the United Russia party.
Natalia Poklonskaya’s protégé, Alexander Porozhnyakov, posted the following entries on his page:

Notice how the supporters of the “Royal Cross” “zigged”

On the second screen - let me remind you, that the Cossacks who were extradited in Lienz were members of the SS organization. Adolf Hitler personally included them in this organization.(see article: A. Hitler. “Cossacks. German traces in the east.” Official SS press organ, magazine “SS-Leitheft” No. 1, 1944). And after being included in the SS, the Cossacks swore allegiance to Hitler as the new Messiah. Is it the position of an Orthodox Christian to glorify apostates? I would like to know why people who support the swamp square and spread fascist symbols are trying to speak on behalf of all Orthodox Christians in Russia.

Let's move on to the heresy of kingship. The leader of the "Royal Cross" movement is actively spreading the ideas of this heresy. His movement does the same.

The Russian Orthodox Church has given a religious, spiritual assessment of the heresy of Tsarebozhiy many times. I will only quote the words of Patriarch Kirill and Priest Daniil Sysoev.

Patriarch Kirill:

Appealing to every person with a call to repentance is the most important mission of the Church, from which it will never retreat. But calls for general repentance for what the current generation has not done are evil calls, because God Himself, by returning our holy things to us, showed that He had forgiven our people.

Priest Daniil Sysoev:

“This blasphemous teaching about the “king-redeemer” fundamentally contradicts the New Testament and the teaching of the Ecumenical Church, which at the V Ecumenical Council condemned the heresy of Origen, who spoke about the possibility of a second Redemption (although this heretic did not go as far as modern monarchists, for he attributed the second crucifixion is not to a man, but to the Lord Jesus himself).

Let us note, by the way, that the concept of “tsar-redeemer” completely contradicts the teaching about the “sin of regicide not redeemed by the Russian people.” The doctrine of the “tsar-redeemer” is not just a Khlyst heresy, but also an outright blasphemy against our Lord Jesus Christ - the Only Redeemer of the human race, including the Russian people. This teaching falls under the anathematization of the week of Orthodoxy, condemning those who do not recognize the blood of Christ as the only means of justification."

It is clear that the “Royal Cross” movement does not like this position of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Since Alexander Porozhnyakov and the “Royal Cross” movement are members of the non-canonical schismatic so-called “Royal Orthodox Church (Brotherhood of the Tsar Redeemer)”, which is aggressive towards the Russian Orthodox Church. Taking all this into account, the reaction of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church is completely understandable.

And what about Alexander Porozhnyakov? He is interesting solely as a protégé of Natalia Poklonskaya - a participant in the protests on Bolotnaya Square in the winter of 2011-2012.

With her statement about checking the film, made at the request of the “Tsar's Cross” movement, Natalya Poklonskaya politically linked herself with the heresy of Tsardom.

Poklonskaya many times committed actions that put her dangerously close to tsar-bozhiya. The most famous is the provocation made at the “Immortal Regiment” rally. To summarize, Natalya Poklonskaya publicly linked her political fate with the heresy of Tsardom.

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PS. Lawyer Poklonskaya, please explain to the legally illiterate public where in the above you saw a “vicious connection” and “an insult to the religious feelings of the Orthodox.” No? Doesn't work? Well, then it makes sense for you to focus on legislative work within the State Duma. And no longer be distracted by non-core activities. There is no point in changing the prosecutor’s uniform into the empress’s dress and supporting the fascist “Tsar’s Cross” movement. Or have the years spent in Ukraine infected you with the Maidan virus?

Having become a deputy of the State Duma of Russia, she promised to keep her prosecutor’s jacket ready. She kept her promise. On November 2, deputy Natalya Poklonskaya turned to her former boss, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, with a number of initiatives. Among them are requests to check the legality of the Ferris wheel in Yevpatoria and to figure out why the residents of Simferopol were not explained the reason for the decision to cut down trees. But the most sensational request was the request to check the film “Matilda” directed by Alexei Uchitel. For several hours, news of this provocation captured the Russian information space. The event was commented on by the director of the film and representatives of the Orthodox Church. Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov also had to give a comment. What is behind this much-hyped provocation?

First, about the formal side of the issue. What are the legal grounds for verification? Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the film, which has not yet been completely shot. The director of the film, Alexey Uchitel, said that the prosecutor’s office had already checked the materials of the film “Matilda” and did not reveal any violations. The Ministry of Culture found no grounds to ban the film's distribution. Poklonskaya’s colleague, first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, deputy and director Vladimir Bortko spoke much about the initiative to check the film tougher: « This is a stupid idea. It has nothing to do with the serious needs of the country and has nothing to do with art. Such initiatives will not pass to the Culture Committee" Even Ivan Artsishevsky, a representative of the House of Romanov in Russia, stated that Nicholas’s connection with Matilda is a historical fact, and he does not offend anyone’s feelings.
The articles of the Criminal Code under which the request was submitted are 146 (violation of copyright and related rights) and 144 (obstruction of the legitimate related activities of journalists). So the solidarity of the great-grandson of the cook of King Multatuli ( head of the RISI sector) in the matter of protecting the feelings of believers with Poklonskaya is groundless. Poklonskaya does not defend Christians, but copyright and the rights of journalists.
According to Poklonskaya, she wrote a request to check the film because she “ People applied, and a decent number of citizens - over a hundred signatures were collected. This film insults their religious feelings. People's reaction is already signaling that something is wrong there. ... Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich is a saint».

I, an Orthodox person, do not understand what the insult to feelings is. Augustine the Blessed, by the way one of the Fathers of the Church, also, like Nicholas II, was subject to the action of fornication. Augustine the Blessed wrote an autobiographical book, Confessions, which is considered one of the pinnacles of patristics. In it, among other things, he talks in some detail about his extramarital affairs. And it never occurred to anyone to ban it because of these descriptions for one and a half thousand years. This makes us think that it is not Christian religious feelings that require the film to be banned.
It’s not at all clear to me what the copyright violation is if supporters of the ban claim that the film is fake. But the application for verification under Article 144 of the Criminal Code forces us to take a closer look at the news. Which journalists' rights were violated?
Poklonskaya states that the initiative for her appeal to the Prosecutor General came from the public association “Royal Cross”. In addition to the group on the social network VKontakte - https://vk.com/tsarskiy_krest, this social movement has no other representations. The first entry in the group was made on October 6, 2016, that is, the movement is less than a month old. The number of subscribers as of November 2 was 458 people, as of November 3 – 513 people. On the morning of November 2, there was only one contact in the group - movement coordinator Alexander Porozhnyakov. By evening, the information was updated, Nikolai Mishustin also appeared. On the morning of November 3, Mishustin was appointed as a contact person, and Porozhnyakov as the leader of the movement. We are seeing organizational political work being carried out in an emergency.
The political leader of the “Royal Cross” movement, who pulled it out of oblivion, is politician Natalya Poklonskaya. Let's take a closer look at the formal leader of this political movement - Alexander Porozhnyakov. Let's go to his public page on the social network VKontakte. Let's start studying the page from the winter of 2011-2012. Let's look at these screenshots.

Porozhnyakov’s political position is clear; it is his legal right to take such a position. But many questions arise for Russian State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya. Maybe in Ukraine it is considered normal for a politician to flirt with the Maidan. But in Russia, this is impossible for a federal-level politician, a member of the United Russia party. Will any organizational conclusions be made within the party? Or has the United Russia party decided to become the second Party of Regions?
I want to ask questions to Natalia Poklonskaya’s protégé Alexander Porozhnyakov in the ideological sphere. The following entries are posted on his page.

Why does Alexander Porozhnyakov, who supposedly fights against insults on religious grounds, not be rejected by insults on ethnic grounds? Based on the second screen, let me remind you that the Cossacks who were extradited in Lienz were members of the SS organization. Adolf Hitler personally included them in this organization (see article: A. Hitler. “Cossacks. German traces in the east.” The official SS press organ, magazine “SS-Leitheft” No. 1, 1944). And after being included in the SS, the Cossacks swore allegiance to Hitler as the new Messiah. Is it the position of an Orthodox Christian to glorify apostates? On the last screen we see the symbol of esoteric fascism - “Black Sun”. I would like to know why people who support the swamp square and spread fascist symbols are trying to speak on behalf of all Orthodox Christians in Russia.
Let's move on to the heresy of kingship. The leader of the “Royal Cross” movement is actively spreading the ideas of this heresy. His movement does the same.

You can get acquainted with the political program of the heresy of Tsardom. The Russian Orthodox Church has given a religious, spiritual assessment of the heresy of Tsarebozhiy many times. I will only quote the words of Patriarch Kirill and Priest Daniil Sysoev.

Patriarch Kirill:
Appealing to every person with a call to repentance is the most important mission of the Church, from which it will never retreat. But calls for general repentance for what the current generation has not done are evil calls, because God Himself, by returning our holy things to us, showed that He had forgiven our people.

Priest Daniil Sysoev:
This blasphemous teaching about the “king-redeemer” fundamentally contradicts the New Testament and the teaching of the Ecumenical Church, which at the V Ecumenical Council condemned the heresy of Origen, who spoke about the possibility of a second Redemption (although this heretic did not go as far as modern monarchists, for he attributed the second crucifixion not to a man, but to the Lord Jesus himself). Let us note, by the way, that the concept of “tsar-redeemer” completely contradicts the teaching about “the sin of regicide not redeemed by the Russian people.” The doctrine of the “tsar-redeemer” is not just a Khlyst heresy, but also an outright blasphemy against our Lord Jesus Christ - the Only Redeemer of the human race, including the Russian people. This teaching falls under the anathematization of the week of Orthodoxy, which condemns those who do not recognize the blood of Christ as the only means of justification.
It is clear that the “Royal Cross” movement does not like this position of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Since Alexander Porozhnyakov and the “Royal Cross” movement position themselves as Orthodox, it can be assumed that they are members of the non-canonical schismatic so-called “Royal Orthodox Church (Brotherhood of the Tsar Redeemer),” which is aggressive towards the Russian Orthodox Church.
Taking all this into account, it is completely understandable reaction representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church: “Protodeacon Kuraev took the Teacher’s side in the dispute with Poklonskaya.”
Alexander Porozhnyakov is interesting solely as a protégé of Natalia Poklonskaya. With his statement about checking the film, made at the request of the “Royal Cross” movement, Natalya Poklonskaya politically associated herself with the heresy of Tsardom..
Does she believe in this heretical doctrine? She never gave a direct answer to this question. But Poklonskaya many times committed actions that put her dangerously close to tsar-theism. The most famous is the provocation made at the “Immortal Regiment” rally (see here: http://ruskom.livejournal.com/825236.html). The last one is political statement about the “one day” miracle that happened, performed by the icon of Nicholas II.

To summarize, Natalya Poklonskaya publicly linked her political fate with the heresy of Tsardom. This heresy has been repeatedly condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church as a blasphemous teaching that is fundamentally contrary to the New Testament.
A protégé of deputy Natalya Poklonskaya (from the United Russia party) - a participant in the protests on Bolotnaya Square in the winter of 2011-2012.
We reacted to the Russian Orthodox Church saw. We are waiting for the reaction of United Russia.

Natalya Poklonskaya is once again in the spotlight of the Russian media in her career. Only if in the spring of 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, everyone was discussing how harshly this fragile woman stigmatizes the Kyiv junta, now everyone is commenting on her irreconcilable attitude towards the film “Matilda”. The renaissance of Poklonskaya’s media popularity even led to bloggers taking out from the shelf an excerpt from her interview on October 18, in which she attributed a phrase from “Woe from Wit” to Suvorov. "Fontanka" studied who pushed the deputy to write a request about the not yet released film by St. Petersburg director Alexei Uchitel - and unwittingly opened this "Pandora's box."

The fact that State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya wrote a request to her former colleagues from the Prosecutor General’s Office became known on November 2. The ex-prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea said that she was approached by representatives from the public organization "Royal Cross", who are convinced that Alexei Uchitel's film "Matilda", which is due to be released in 2017, poses a "threat to national security." Let us recall that the film tells about the romantic relationship between the heir to the royal throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich, and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

“This film defiles the feelings of the Orthodox and contains unreliable, false information regarding our sovereign, who is canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, is our saint, a martyr. That’s why people turned to carry out an appropriate check,” she explained on the Dozhd TV channel. Poklonskaya herself has her own motive.

"Royal Cross"

The “Royal Cross” movement, which managed to indirectly quarrel between Natalia Poklonskaya and a good half of the Russian elite, essentially does not exist: there is no corresponding entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. At the beginning of October, a group with the same name appeared on VKontakte, its creator was Muscovite Alexander Porozhnyakov. He calls himself “the leader of the “Royal Cross” movement.” In 2013, he graduated from the Higher School of Economics, where he studied at the Faculty of Management. However, the struggle for the religious feelings of believers seems to have turned out to be more interesting than boring numbers from financial reports.

The first post in the VKontakte community dates back to October 6: the administrator posted a link to an article from the Russian People's Line, a patriotic portal edited from St. Petersburg by Anatoly Stepanov, who once collaborated with the famous nationalist Konstantin Dushenov. The article said that on July 17, on the anniversary of the murder of the royal family, a “prayer stand” took place on Suvorov Square in Moscow. "Hegumen Kirill (Sakharov), who recently returned from a landmark trip to the Slavic hearths in Europe (“Slavic Movement”), spoke about the difficult situation in the Slavic movement... Lawyer I. Yu. Chepurnaya recalled that the issue of an electronic card, personal code, an insurance certificate that contains a record of a person’s “gender change,” which harms not only the God-given freedom of Christians, but also the national security of Russia, is still not permitted in the legal field,” the report says.

And at the end it is reported that the participants in the standing were read the text of an appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation regarding the “slanderous anti-Orthodox film directed by A. Uchitel and his accomplices “Matilda”.” “The appeal was approved, and 67 comrades signed it,” is stated at the end of this July report.

Gradually, Alexander Porozhnyakov - or his assistants in the “Royal Cross” - began to collect on the community page all the materials that were published on little-known Orthodox sites and were dedicated to “Matilda”. So, they reposted the June article from the Hodegetria portal. “Slander against a martyr is part of a satanic ritual,” Radio Radonezh columnist Viktor Saulkin begins his angry journalistic material.

“It is no coincidence that the blasphemous slander and lies of the vile film about the Holy Royal Family appears on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the revolution, which led to the collapse of the Russian Empire and a bloody fratricidal civil war. Today is the “international international of moneylenders”, which once sent a gang of Trotsky and other fanatics to Russia , hopes to repeat the scenario of defeating the Russian state and pitting the people against each other in a fratricidal massacre. In 1991, our country, as it was in 1917, again found itself in the grip of the “international usurers,” but to the horror of the “world behind the scenes,” Russia is once again breaking out. out of their clutches,” the publicist is confident, adding that Alexey Uchitel in his film “lies with truly satanic sophistication.”

The “Royal Cross” group gathers the opinions of ordinary citizens. Here, for example, you can read the emotional post of a community subscriber, Tver resident Mikhail Tarasov. Fontanka publishes it with the same punctuation and spelling.

“I watched the trailer for “Matilda” - this film which will soon be released in all cinemas around the world with translations and subtitles... I was horrified, because I had watched this video much earlier, in a dream when I was a child. I was given the choice to go watch it or not. Someone warned me that if I watched the film, I would burn in fire, then I disobeyed and still decided to take a look with one eye, I thought they would forgive the prank. I was shown the film and after 1.5. seconds, a fire started in the room. The curtains and the actors were burning... I especially remember the inhuman scream of the actress who played the harlot Matilda in the film, her beautiful dress was burning from the inside, there was a wild desperate scream, everyone was burning, including me,” wrote Mikhail. Tarasov, whose right hand, according to his VKontakte page, is decorated with a tattoo with the text of the 90th Psalm.

"The Royal Cross" is interested not only in the events surrounding the film "Matilda". In the community, for example, they republished an interview with the head of the Military Orthodox Mission, Igor Smykov, to the KGB-Inform portal. It states, in part:

“Most of the representatives of the “world elite” are members of Masonic lodges and practicing Satanists. According to the plans of Freemasonry, it is necessary to unleash a World War, pitting the Christian world and the Muslim world in it. Through military operations, famine and epidemics, reduce the world population to 500 million people, who must to be completely microchipped, zombied and completely subjugated to the Antichrist. These events are described in the Revelation of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian, the beloved disciple of Christ,” says Igor Smykov, who sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General’s Office regarding the film “Matilda” back in May 2016.

The Fontanka correspondent turned to the creator of the “Royal Cross” Alexander Porozhnyakov, sharing her feeling that the community was specially created to combat the new painting by Alexei Uchitel. “Unfortunately, you are deeply mistaken,” the activist replied. Let us note that, judging by his page on VKontakte, he is really interested not only in the imperial family. Thus, in early October, he reposted a message from Petrozavodsk resident Natalya Kuzmina, who became a defendant in a criminal case under Article 280 – “Public calls for extremist activities.” In her message, she talks about searches and interrogations at the local FSB, indicating that the case was initiated “for articles about Jews, and about Putin and the Patriarch.”

People's Deputy and fighter against cannibalism

Now it is not only the “Royal Cross” that is active on the front of confrontation with “Matilda”. Together with him, Nikolai Mishustin, the head of the Parental Otpor.rf movement, also signs statements to various authorities. There are also no traces of this organization in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Mishustin himself on the website of Parental Resistance calls himself a “people’s deputy” and “a public figure in the State Duma.” In the spring of 2016, he actually spoke in the State Duma - at a round table organized with the support of the Communist Party faction and dedicated to juvenile justice.

“If you have not yet been microchipped and are not in electronic shackles, it is written below why. The worst thing is that the maddened electro-colonizers in the authorities pin the same hopes on an electronic concentration camp. On digital-fascist technologies. And one prosecutor somewhere far away even told the complainant. How dare you go against the system??? But we have been going against DIGITAL FASCISM, against other fascist technologies, like our fathers for 7 years already.”

Finally, Mishustin and Porozhnyakov are accompanied by Irina Vasina, the head of the public organization “Civil Counteraction to Extremism.” The movement was officially registered with the tax authorities in June 2016, after which Moscow businesswoman Irina Vasina demanded that the police prosecute writer Vladimir Sorokin for his 2000 story “Nastya,” written in the style of 19th-century Russian literature. The reason for the appeal was the desire of director Konstantin Bogomolov to film a story about a girl who was fried in an oven. Irina Vasina, who owns the Otsenka Center-Soyuz company, demanded that law enforcement agencies check this work for the purpose of promoting cannibalism.

Discussion around Poklonskaya

We must admit: the Matilda fighters have very active supporters. So, they have already written a request to the Moscow Patriarchate, from where the following answer came:

“Considering that the film grossly distorts historical facts concerning the life of Emperor Nicholas II and members of the royal family who were canonized as saints, this issue cannot be ignored by the Russian Orthodox Church... The Patriarchal Council for Culture together with the Synodal Department for relations between the Church and society and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate are preparing a corresponding appeal to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,” says the letter signed by the head of the program department of the Patriarchal Council for Culture and the former executive editor of the Pravoslavie.ru portal, Alexander Parmenov.

However, the real bomb was not this appeal, but the request of State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, who, apparently, partially shares the views of activists from the “Royal Cross”, “Parental Resistance” and “Civil Counteraction to Extremism”. But, finding herself in this company, she not only came under criticism from the liberal public, which quite predictably reacted to yet another attempt by conservative religious circles to influence the cultural process. Those who are difficult to suspect of sympathizing with the opposition also raised their eyebrows with displeasure. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Stanislav Govorukhin, who in 2012 was the head of Putin’s election headquarters, said that the attempt to test Matilda “needs to be nipped in the bud.” Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, in turn, shrugged his shoulders and noted that “it’s stupid to check a film that hasn’t been released.”

Andrey Zakharov,

Representative of the “Royal Cross” movement: “They violated a saint canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church”

A deputy’s request to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a request to check the not yet completed film “Matilda” by Alexei Uchitel at the request of the “Royal Cross” movement. Its representatives considered that they were dealing with “anti-Russian and anti-religious provocation in the sphere of culture.” We asked its representative, “a public figure in the State Duma,” as he introduces himself, Nikolai Mishustin, what exactly outraged the movement.

Still from the film.

Another unusual title of Mr. Mishustin is the coordinator of the public committee for the protection of citizens’ rights from “automated processing of personal data and electronic identification.”

Nikolai Mishustin explained that the film “outraged a saint canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church” (meaning Nicholas II - “MK”). Let us remember that canonization was not easy for the Russian Orthodox Church: in the year 200, when the corresponding decision was made at the Council of Bishops, Metropolitan Nicholas of Nizhny Novgorod refused to sign the clause on Nicholas II, because he considered him a state traitor who sanctioned the collapse of Russia.

In addition, Mishustin said, the film is “anti-Russian propaganda” because it “mocks the symbols of the state, and this actually undermines national security.” An outrage against a saint, according to Mishustin, are “bed scenes with an incomprehensible diva, which have absolutely no historical evidence.” He confirmed that he had not seen the entire picture of Alexei Uchitel, but everything mentioned above is contained in the trailer.

The trailer lasts 2 minutes, the only scene that can be called erotic lasts less than a second. It shows a naked man and woman, but they only enter the frame up to their shoulders.

“The director has realized his erotomaniac fantasies, they no longer know where to put this pornography,” Mishustin added. “No one has done more damage to our culture than the Nazis,” he continued. - And when they use a German porn actor to play the role of our king, this is a desecration, an outrage. This doesn’t fit into any framework.”

Nicholas II in the film Teacher is played by German actor Lars Eidinger. The film “Goltzius and the Pelican Company” by director Peter Greenaway, which tells about a series of works by the Dutch artist of the 16th–17th centuries Hendrik Goltzius on biblical and ancient subjects, is probably called a “pornographic” work.

Greenaway's films have repeatedly received the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. The director’s works also received awards at the Venice and Berdin film festivals.