Fall of an Empire. Byzantine lesson.

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 "The basic concept of painting dates back to the Moscow Metropolitan Zosima, who in 1492 in his book" Record Paschal was first put forward the thesis - "Moscow - the Third Rome." For a long time (sometimes even now) the authorship of the concept of "Moscow - the Third Rome," wrongly attributed to the elder Philothei.

Moderator - Archimandrite Tikhon (Shevkunov) - First-person gives his version of the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. Filming done in modern Istanbul and Venice.

Central line of the film is the contrast between the Catholic West and Orthodox East, but neglected to wars with Byzantium, the Arabs had begun in the VII century, and led to the loss of the Byzantine territories in North Africa and the Middle East. Death of the Byzantine Empire was due to the conquest of the Ottoman Turks (1453 - the fall of Constantinople in 1460 - the conquest of the Morea, in 1461 - the conquest of the Empire of Trebizond). The author argues that Byzantium flourished thanks to the strengthening of Orthodoxy and fell as a result of the pernicious influence of the Venetian and other foreign agents of influence of the Roman curia. It does not specify the objective historical reasons for the collapse of Byzantium: expansion of the Ottoman Turks, the internal religious and social turmoil, etc. On the other hand ignored cooperation (up to IV Crusade), the Byzantines and crusaders and other examples of peaceful interaction between the Empire and the West.

Analogies with the history of Russia are unscientific, okoloistorichesky nature: more than a thousand-year history of the Byzantine civilization [1] compared with the last 20-30 years of Russia's history. The author presents the facts from the history of Byzantium, which are analogous to the collapse of imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. A direct analogy with the events of recent history, such as fighting the state bureaucracy with the oligarchs, the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the separation of Serbia and Bulgaria from Byzantine, strengthening the vertical of power, etc. "


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