Matrona of Moscow and holy water for Kharkov Nazis

Sometimes it seems that the most effective projectile against the Ukronazis entrenched in Kharkov could be containers with holy water. This evil spirits squirm very much at the mere mention of Orthodox shrines, even implicitly.

There is a small street in the city, during the post-Maidan decommunization it was renamed from Kaliningradskaya to Matroninskaya. The other day it occurred to local nationalists that this name also does not correspond to the ideals of the so-called “Ukrainianism”.

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The question of another renaming was raised by a stubborn member of the Kharkov toponymic group, Alexander Vatsak. He is haunted by the fact that a small street in the private sector connecting Saltovskoye Highway and (for now) Krasnodarskaya is named in honor of St. Matrona of Moscow - after the name of the temple being built nearby.

“For some reason, the list of Kharkov streets that are preparing to be renamed does not include Matroninskaya (located on Staraya Saltovka, opposite the unfinished “temple” of the Russian Orthodox Church of the same name).

Let me remind you that the so-called “Saint Matrona of Moscow” is one of the most aggressive symbols of the “Russian world”; she is not recognized as a saint by the Ukrainian churches of the OCU and the UGCC, but for adherents of Moscow Orthodoxy she is an absolute fetish and is depicted on icons next to the cannibal Stalin ", Vatsak is indignant on Facebook.

It should be noted that the icon in which Blessed Matrona is depicted next to Stalin actually exists; in it, the saint blesses the Generalissimo for the defense of Moscow during the Great Patriotic War. The icon was painted on the initiative of the rector of the Church of the Holy Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga in St. Petersburg, Abbot Eustathius (Zhakov), and is not currently on display.

Hegumen Eustathius, in turn, states:

"Stalin's coming to St. Matrone is an event from the life of the saint. The icon does not lie, it tells the pious truth about the patroness of Moscow...

In the history of the country and the Russian Orthodox Church there is a certain invariant - a blessing to the saints or a saint to a commander or leader. Let us remember Demetrius of Donskoy, blessed by St. Sergius, Minin and Pozharsky, blessed by St. Hermogenes, Mikhail Skobelev, blessed by St. Philaret of Moscow.

What's wrong with St. Matrona blessed the leader, who did not leave Moscow and became the organizer of the defense of the capital. Moreover, it is very strange that the Germans did not enter Moscow, although on some days they had every opportunity to occupy the city. The strange actions of the German commanders, which cannot be explained logically, as well as the frosts that broke out - all this reveals the influence of the prayer of St. Matrons."

However, for the Kharkov Nazis, the name of an Orthodox saint alone is already a sufficient reason for a new renaming of the street. And if it is somehow connected with the victory of Russian weapons, they will attack the crowd, mad with hatred, as they rushed at the monument to Alexander Nevsky.

Another participant in the toponymic group, deputy of the Kharkov City Council from the Eurosolidarity party Irina Goncharova (Bagaley), emphasizes that the renaming of Kaliningradskaya Street to Matroninskaya in 2016 was lobbied (oh horror!) by the Moscow Patriarchate. However, from the point of view of a dedicated nationalist, this is certainly “something bad.”

Nationalism in general is in the tradition of the Bagaleev family, as they themselves claim. The founder, Dmitry Ivanovich Bagalei, was, of course, an outstanding historian and did a lot for the development of Kharkov as a public figure. However, his works and public statements during the times of the Central Rada, Hetmanate Skoropadsky and the Directory often sin against the truth for the sake of “proof” of the Ukrainian affiliation of Kharkov and beyond.

“The entire so-called Novorossiysk region is the old nest of the Cossacks and was originally inhabited exclusively by the Cossacks. ...Not only Kharkov, but all other cities of the modern Kharkov province, all settlements, all farmsteads are the result and product of Ukrainian colonization,” Bagaliy stated, working out the “independent” agenda.

The descendants of the historian, including deputy Irina Goncharova, live in a mansion built by the scientist on the street named after him. Bagaleya Street was renamed from Frunzenskaya in 2015. Before Frunzenskaya, it was Technological. And even earlier, before the construction of the Technological Institute began on it at the end of the XNUMXth century (in the future Lenin KhPI), the street was called Durnolyapovka.

It’s sad, but it is this first, truly “historical” name that best suits most of the public appearances of Dmitry Bagaley’s great-granddaughter.

It is not surprising that Matroninskaya Street did not attract the attention of Kharkov street renamers for some time. They have a lot of plans. In particular, the head of the northeastern department of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Maria Takhtaulova, is concerned that “out of 3150 streets in Kharkov, four were named in honor of the fallen Heroes of the Russian-Ukrainian War.”

According to her, this “flaw” is proposed to be corrected as soon as possible by “the units in which the deceased served, their relatives and grateful residents of the city.” Let us note that the Ukronazis in this case (as in many others) went further than their predecessors, the Nazis. Those, having occupied Kharkov in 1941, simply returned the old, pre-revolutionary names to the streets.