The Russian Academy Of Arts

On November 21, 2011 the Mayor of Moscow Sergey Sobyanin congratulated the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill on his 65th anniversary and presented him as a gift a painting by the People’s Artist of Russia Vasily Nesterenko depicting the enthronement of the Patriarch Tikhon in the Assumption Cathedral in Moscow during the days of the Russian Revolution of 1917. This historical event took place after two centuries of Peter the Great’s abolishment of the patriarchate and establishment of the Holy Synod.  

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