The Serbian “Night Wolf” delivered an icon of the Russian warrior-martyr Yevgeny Rodionov to Kosovo
A member of the Serbian branch of the Night Wolves motorcycle club, retired military man Slobodan Bašić delivered icons to Kosovo that were given to Serbian brothers from Russia.
This was reported by the Serbian edition of Sputnik radio, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
In Kosovo, a member of the Serbian branch of the Russian motorcycle club “Night Wolves”, a veteran of the 63rd parachute brigade of the Serbian Armed Forces, Slobodan Bašić, completed the “Serbian Warrior” motorcycle ride, dedicated to the Serbian monk Chariton, brutally killed by Albanian militants in Kosovo and Metohija in 1999, and to the Russian soldier Evgeniy Rodionov, the animal killed by Chechen militants in 1996.
Previously, a motorcyclist traveled a 300-kilometer journey from Moscow to Valaam, delivering the icon of the martyr Khariton to the Russian monastery.
“I went with my brothers from Belgrade first to the south of Serbia, and our first stop was the Crna Reka monastery (where the headless body of the monk Chariton rests - ed.), there we met with the abbot of the monastery, Father Andrei and the brother monks, presenting them with an icon of the Mother of God Valaam, donated from the northernmost point of Russian Orthodoxy,” said Basic. “The icon is a gift to fraternal Serbia from the Transfiguration Monastery on Valaam, Abbot Pankratius and all the monks.”
In Kosovo and Metohija, travelers visited the Monastery of the Holy Archangels in Prizren, which became the last home of the monk Chariton, who, like the Russian warrior Evgeniy Rodionov, was brutally killed because he did not want to renounce the Orthodox cross.
“From there, Father Khariton went to his final obedience. Not far from the monastery he was captured, tortured and killed. It is in this monastery that one of the first frescoes depicting Father Khariton is located,” said Bašić.
During their journey, the participants of the “Serbian Warrior” march also visited the ancient monastery of Gracanica and Gazimestan - a monument to the Heroes of the Battle of Kosovo. Participants in the “Serbian Warrior” march solemnly presented the icon of the Russian soldier-martyr Evgeniy Rodionov to the Church of St. Demetrius of Thessalonica in Kosovska Mitrovica.
“The handmade icon was presented to the Serbian Orthodox Church by the mother of the Russian hero Lyubov Rodionova. For many, Eugene became a symbol of courage, honor and loyalty and was posthumously awarded the Order of Courage.
Yevgeny Rodionov is the first Russian army soldier to be revered as a saint in Serbia and Greece, although he has not yet been canonized. In the Church of St. Demetrius, he is depicted on a fresco with the inscription “Russian Knight,” Bašić said.
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