Français Le 12 septembre 2021, SAI le Tsarévitch et Grand-Duc Georges de Russie et sa fiancée Mlle Victoria Romanovna Bettarini sont arrivés à Saint-Pétersbourg, capitale du nord de la Russie, à l'invitation de Son Éminence le métropolite Varsonofii de Saint-Pétersbourg et Ladoga pour participer aux services religieux marquant le 800e anniversaire de la naissance de saint Alexandre Nevski et la fête de la translation de ses saintes reliques de la ville de Vladimir à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1724. Le Grand-Duc et sa fiancée étaient accompagnés de Kirill Kirillovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, chef du Bureau des relations avec les organisations gouvernementales et civiles de la Chancellerie de la Maison impériale de Russie.
Le Grand-Duc et Victoria Romanovna Bettarini ont assisté à la Divine Liturgie à la Cathédrale de la Sainte-Trinité dans la Laure Saint-Alexandre-Nevski, qui a été officiée par Sa Sainteté le Patriarche Cyrille de Moscou et de toute la Russie.
Français Ont concélébré avec Sa Sainteté : Leurs Éminences le métropolite Vladimir de Kichinev et de toute la Moldavie, le métropolite Vincent de Tachkent et d'Ouzbékistan, le métropolite Barsonofii de Saint-Pétersbourg et de Ladoga, le métropolite Paul de Kroutitski et de Kolomna, le métropolite Hilarion de Volokolamsk, le métropolite Benjamin de Minsk et de Zaslavsk, le métropolite Dionisii de Voskressensk, le métropolite Fédor de Volgograd et de Kamychine, le métropolite Alexis de Tchéliabinsk et de Miass, l'archevêque Nicanor de Sakhaline du Sud et des îles Kouriles, l'abbé de la Laure Sa Grâce l'évêque Nazarii de Cronstadt et les frères monastiques, Leurs Grâces l'évêque Ignace de Vyborg et de Priozersk, l'évêque Mstislav de Tikhvine et de Lodeinoe Pole, l'évêque Mitrofan de Gatchina et de Luga, l'évêque Silouan de Lyskovo et de Lukoyanov, l'évêque Silouan de Peterhof, ainsi que Les archiprêtres Bogdan Soiko, Sergei Kuksevich, Vladimir Sorokin, Gennadii Bartov, Alexander Budnikov, Gennadii Zverev, Evgenii Shogenov et Alexander Rumiantsev, l'archimandrite Aleksei (Ganzhin), Hegumen Filaret (Priashnikov) et d'autres membres du clergé de Saint-Pétersbourg et de Moscou.
Among the laity attending the service were the Chair of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko; the Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Northwest Federal District, Alexander Gutsan; the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov; the Governor of the Leningrad Region, Alexander Drozdenko; the First Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Sergei Obryvalin; the Chair of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Vyacheslav Makarov; and the Mayor of Belgrade (Serbia), Zoran Radojičić.
The Grand Duke and his bride received the Holy Mysteries of Christ and, after the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, took part in the Patriarchal Procession of the Cross, during which the chest with the relics of the Holy Right-Believing Grand Prince Alexander Nevsky was brought into the square in front of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. An intercessory prayer service, or moleben, followed.
In the afternoon, the Tsesarevich George of Russia and Miss Victoria Romanovna Bettarini attended a reception at the residence of the Metropolitan of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, where the Grand Duke and his fiancée had the opportunity to chat with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia.
His Imperial Highness congratulated the First Hierarch of the Russian Orthodox Church on this important anniversary and feast day, and took the opportunity formally to introduce his fiancée to His Holiness. The Patriarch congratulated the Grand Duke and Victoria Romanovna on their upcoming marriage ceremony, and offered them his blessing and best wishes.
Later the Tsesarevich and Victoria Romanovna went to the St. Nicholas-Holy Epiphany Naval Cathedral of St. Petersburg, where they took part in the ceremony of the translation to this cathedral of a fragment of the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker of Myra in Lycia, which came to Russia from Bari through the efforts of the famous philanthropist Prince V. N. Svirsky-Zhimirov. After a moleben, the Grand Duke and Victoria Romanovna Bettarini venerated the chest with the relics and thanked Prince V. N. Svirsky-Zhimirov for his service to the Russian Orthodox Church.
Throughout the day, Grand Duke George met and spoke with many of his countrymen who had traveled to St. Petersburg from all over Russia to attend these celebrations. They warmly expressed their sincerest best wishes on the upcoming wedding and recalled their meetings and conversations with the Grand Duke’s mother, the Head of the Russian Imperial House, H.I.H. The Grand Duchess Maria of Russia, during her many trips to different regions of our homeland.
That evening, after attending a working meeting, the Grand Duke George of Russia and Miss Victoria Bettarini returned to Moscow.
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