Saint John

Russian people outside of Russia used to be often called Ivanov. In Russian language, Ivanushka-fool, Ivan-Tsarevich, Brother Ivanushka, and with them Vanka-stand, are not forgotten in folklore. Distinguishes them all if you believe folk creativity, in addition to individual qualities, the general amazing openness, generosity, even sacrifice. People and to this day refers to their heroes with great sympathy, surrounding the present wealth for the visible robustness, which in rubles and the arches do not measure. What kind of wealth? Where?
Looking for starters to the sacraticles, remember that Ivan is our first - John. And we will understand what this obliges it. And from where in Russian history, together with the Saint John Russian, such a sample of sacrificial love for Fatherland, like Ivan Susanin, near the righteous John Kronstadt such a patriot of Russia, as the thinker Ivan Ilyin, and among the contemporaries of Elder John (peasantkina) such glorious sons of the Motherland as the legendary The pilot Ivan Kozdadub and the hero of the Soviet Union Ivan Ivanovich Ivanov