Patriarch Alexy I: Servant of the Church and the Fatherland

The life and works of the His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy I is an inspiring example of the unless serving of the Church and Fatherland. An incredibly heavy cross fell to the share of His Holiness Patriarch - to revive the Russian Orthodox Church in the post-war period of the Stalinist dictatorship, to defend it from encroachments and persecutions during the Khrushchev thaw, to establish and strengthen it during the years of Brezhnev"s stagnation. For a quarter of a century of constant control, the opposite and infringement by the ruling atheistic party Communists, he managed to preserve and strengthen the local church entrusted to him by him. This book is a story about the life and high ministry of the Holy Patriarch. The publication is recommended by the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church