Russia turned out to be a tough nut for Rome. And as we saw the attempts to change the doctrine of Rus` with "brute force" at the end of XVI – beginning of XVII centuries were unsuccessful, so they began the "cultural" expansion. They tried to attack from two sides: through Kiev and through the Constantinople Patriarchate.
As we already know, the Jesuits actively ruled the roost in the Constantinople Church and made great strides with the help of the Turks. Peter Mogila was appointed to Kiev, and played the role of a fighter against Roman Catholicism, Orthodoxy supporter.
De-facto Latin Academy was established in Kiev, where teachers of Roman Catholic school created staff. Then, it was necessary to wait for the moment for transferring the Latin experience to Russian soil in Moscow. And this moment will come fast enough.
Why did Mogila find relics of Vladimir in Kiev, and did he know, that it was the relics of Vladimir? You will not find an answer to this question.
We can note, that in the XIX century Church of the Tithes was demolished to build a magnificent temple. An archaeological research was conducted before that, and they discovered a stone tomb made of red color slabs in process of research. There were a skeleton without head and bones of the right hand, a remains of a brocade dress, golden buttons and men's shoes. Most likely, it was the relics of Prince Vladimir[68].
It is evident, that there are no precise data about Vladimir, only guesses exist.
For whom and for what was it necessary, Peter Mogila to find Vladimir`s relics in the Church of the Tithes tomb?
In 1853, a monument to St. Prince Vladimir was opened in Kiev.
But only in July 1888, on the occasion of the 900th anniversary of the Rus` Baptism theMost Holy Governing Synodadopted the decree including the day of St. Vladimir memory into holidays, which have the sign of the cross in a semicircle in the Charter, in order "to record the name of Russian nation Illuminator forever in reverent memory of the Orthodox Russian Church children ".
Prince Vladimir is venerated by Catholics also.
When did Vladimir convert to the Christianity?
Giles Fletcherwrites about this fact[69]. The author was in Russia in 1588. He writes that according Polish legends Vladimir was converted to Christianity in 990, but at that time Russian own legend told about 1300.
On the basis of the monuments and graves dates[70], one can conclude that the baptism was in the XII-XIII centuries.
Schaveliyeva N.I. in her book "Ancient Rus` in thePolish historyby Jan Długosz" demonstrated, that Prince Vladimir lived in the XIII century.
Conclusion:The chronicles were most likely amended with late insertion, that the baptism came from the Greeks.
This was necessary, in order to create basis for correction of Russian books after (per samples of) the Greek ones, which had, allegedly, the unchanged content, but Russian ones were, allegedly, spoiled.
But we already know, that Jesuits replaced Arian sacred books with Latin ones in Greece in the XVII century.
The Schism (Raskol)
Samuel Collins[71]wrote:
"Now the reigning Emperor is called Alexei Mikhailovich Romanov, i.e. Alexei, the son ofMichael, Roman (the Roman)».
At the time of Alexei Mikhailovich the church schism happened. By the way, we should note, that the prospective tsar Alexei began to study at the age of five and studied the Horologion, the Psalms and the Acts[72]. And where is the Gospel and the complete Bible? Or at that time it didn`t exist?
Melnikov-Pechersky[73], the writer and the journalist, speaking about the schism, said about difficulties in understanding this phenomenon:
Raskol (Schism) and raskol`niki (schismatics) "is one of the most interesting phenomenon in the historical life of the Russian people. But this phenomenon remains unexplored properly, although it has been existing longer than two centuries. Neither the administration, nor the society do not know in whole and in details, what is the schism. Even more: nine-tenths of the schismatics themselves are not completely aware of the split as it is ...
Yes, we must frankly confess, that in the continuation of two hundred years, neither Russian administration nor Russian literature did almost nothing to clarify the subject, dark object, not loving light and also, by coincidence, put into the darkness of secrecy for a long time.
Now, when we have finally passed through both terrible time of fires, and the strange time of mystery, and dark time of scholastic disputes about the fingers bending and walking clockwise, now when all this is acknowledged as sad and failed attempts to destroy the schism, now westill know about it not more, than our fathers and grandfathers knewat the time of the terrible fires.
We are even less aware then them, because we have moved away from the common people, more than they had. Meanwhile …. Russian people thirst to clarify this subject, ardently desires to be finallyexplainedto with method of all-lightning analysisabout this mysterious phenomenon, affecting dozens of millions Russian people and more than hundred thousand people in Prussia, Austria, the Danube principalities, Turkey, Asia Minor, Egypt and maybe even Japan".
We see, nobody realized two hundred years after the schism, what was the reform of the Church, combined with such terrible consequences, both for the state as a whole, and for millions Russian people. What were the motives of the authorities, both secular and ecclesiastical, forced to make such sacrifices. Even the schismatics do not understand, what was the schism, but the government keepssecret.
Now We understand, that complex of reforms carried out by Romanovs (Roman) captured power in Russia, was aimed at the destruction of native Russian Vedic faith, Christianity (Arianism) associated with it, and implanting Christianity in Catholic rendition, archly called Orthodoxy to calm down the believers.
And all this was carried out under the guise of church literature correction with help of Greek hierarchs, who sold themselves to Catholics, and Kiev henchmen, who surged to Moscow after Ukraine joined the Moscow Tsardom.
On the role of the Greeks and natives of Kiev in organizing schism.
Issue about the Greek and Kiev hierarchs and theologians, has been already consecrated by us in the previous chapters.
We can add to it the opinion of the priest Joahn Lukyanov, who visited Istanbul[74]:
"The Latins took away books from Orthodox Greeks and burned them. After that the books were re-published in "Latin countries", but with " heretical corrections". Metropolitan Theophan wrote about is in 1645 to Russian Tsar Alexey Mikhailovich. "
It is believed, that the main inspirer of Nikon's reforms in the Russian Church, according his own admission, was the eastern patriarchAthanasius III Patellarios (Alexios Patellarios, Athanasius III of Constantiniple), who was, the supporter of Latin faith according to professor Evguéni Schmurlo. The following inspirers and the staff of Nikon were not better Athanasius.
Fedor Melnikov[75]writes:
"Nikon arranged business of books correction by deception and forgery. He convened Council in Moscow in 1654, where liturgical books were decided to be corrected according ancient Russian and ancient Greek manuscripts[76]. In fact, the Nikon`s correctors corrected booksaccording new Greek books, written in Jesuit printing houses in Venice and Paris."