Odessa Iconographers: Archimandrite Zinon

[Кирилл Сызранский]

- When I started, icon painting in the Soviet Union officially no one did. It was in the 70's. In the Soviet constitution writing was equated with religious icons, and, consequently, the anti-Soviet propaganda. It is a real crime for him, by the way, it was possible to sit in jail ...

Something I do not remember anything about "writing icons" in the Constitution. : D

[gans]

Foot dialogue Pushkin St. Filaret --
Pushkin:
Dar vain, gift incidental,
Life, why have you given me?
Or why the fate of a mystery
You are sentenced to death?

Who made me hostile power
Undeserving cried,
My soul filled with passion,
Um dubiously excited? ..

Goals not in front of me:
My heart is empty, idle mind
And wearies me nostalgic
Monotonous life noise.

Metropolitan Filaret responded to these verses:

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Not without reason, not by chance
Life from God's given me,
Not without the will of God mystery
And sentenced to death.

I myself am a capricious power
The evil of the dark abyss called,
The very soul filled with passion,
Um doubt upset.

I thought to myself, ignoring me!
Beamed through the darkness of doom --
And ye build thee
Heart is clean, bright mind!

In response to Metropolitan Filaret Pushkin wrote "Stanzas»:
In the hours of fun il idle boredom,
Sometimes I have my lyre
Entrust effeminate sounds
Madness, indolence and passions.

But then the strings sly
Involuntarily, I interrupt the sound,
When your voice majestic
I was suddenly struck.

I poured a flood of tears unexpected,
And the wounds of my conscience
Thy speeches fragrant
Am encouraged by the net was firs.

And now from the heights of spiritual
I hand stretching you
And the gentle strength and love
Subdue unruly dreams.

Thy soul fire palima
Rejected the darkness of earthly vanities
And heed harp Seraphim
In sacred horror poet.


The original text of the last stanza, as amended at the request of the censor, was as follows:
Thy soul is warmed by the fire
Rejected the darkness of earthly vanities
And heed harp Filaret
In sacred horror poet.

icon on. Zinon