Royal cross vkontakte. Who quarreled Poklonskaya with Kshesinskaya

Having become a deputy of the State Duma of Russia, she promised to keep her prosecutor's tunic in readiness. She kept her promise. On November 2, deputy Natalya Poklonskaya turned to her former boss, Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika, with a number of initiatives. Among them are requests to check the legality of the Ferris wheel in Yevpatoriya and to find out why the residents of Simferopol were not explained the reason for the decision to cut down trees. But the most sensational request was the request to check the film "Matilda" directed by Alexei Uchitel. For several hours, the news about this provocation captured the information space of Russia. The event was commented on by the film director and representatives of the Orthodox Church. I had to comment on the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. What is behind this publicized provocation?

First, about the formal side of the issue. What are the legal grounds for verification? Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the film that had not yet been filmed to the end. Film director Alexei Uchitel said that the prosecutor's office had already checked the materials of the film "Matilda" and did not reveal any violations. The Ministry of Culture found no reason to ban the film. A colleague of Poklonskaya, the first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture, deputy and director Vladimir Bortko spoke much about the initiative to check the film tougher: « This is a stupid idea. It has nothing to do with the serious needs of the country and has nothing to do with art. Such initiatives will not pass to the Committee on Culture". Even Ivan Artsishevsky, a representative of the Romanov dynasty in Russia, said that Nikolai's connection with Matilda is a historical fact, and he does not offend anyone's feelings.
Articles of the Criminal Code under which the request was filed are 146 (violation of copyright and related rights) and 144 (obstruction of the legal related activities of journalists). So the solidarity of the great-grandson of the king's cook Multatuli ( head of RISS sector) in the matter of protecting the feelings of believers with Poklonskaya is groundless. Poklonskaya does not protect Christians, but copyright and the rights of journalists.
According to Poklonskaya, she wrote a request to check the film because she “ people applied, and a decent number of citizens - more than a hundred signatures were collected. This film offends their religious feelings. The reaction of people is already giving a bell that something is wrong there. ... Sovereign Nikolai Alexandrovich is a saint».

What is the insult of feelings, I, an Orthodox person, do not understand. Augustine the Blessed, by the way, one of the Fathers of the Church, like Nicholas II, was also subject to the action of fornication. Augustine the Blessed wrote the autobiographical book "Confession", which is considered one of the pinnacles of patristics. In it, among other things, he talks in sufficient detail about his extramarital relationships. And forbidding it because of these descriptions did not occur to anyone for one and a half thousand years. This makes one think that it is not Christian religious feelings that require the film to be banned.
It is not at all clear to me what the copyright violation is, if the supporters of the ban claim that the film is a fake. But the statement about the verification under Article 144 of the Criminal Code makes us take a closer look at the news. Which journalists' rights have been violated?
Poklonskaya states that the initiative of her appeal to the Prosecutor General came from the public association "Royal Cross". In addition to the group in the social network VKontakte - https://vk.com/tsarskiy_krest, this social movement has no other representations. The first entry in the group was made on October 6, 2016, that is, the movement is less than a month old. The number of subscribers on November 2 is 458 people, on November 3 - 513 people. On the morning of November 2, there was only one contact in the group - the movement coordinator Alexander Porozhnyakov. By evening, the information was updated, Nikolai Mishustin also appeared. On the morning of November 3, Mishustin was appointed as the contact person, and Porozhnyakov as the head of the movement. We are witnessing an urgent organizational political work.
The political leader of the Tsar's Cross movement, which pulled it out of oblivion, is politician Natalya Poklonskaya. Let's take a closer look at the formal leader of this political movement - Alexander Porozhnyakov. Let's go to his public page of the social network VKontakte. Let's start studying the page from the winter of 2011-2012. Let's look at these screenshots.

Porozhnyakov's political position is clear, it is his legal right to take such a position. But many questions arise for the deputy of the State Duma of Russia, Natalya Poklonskaya. Maybe in Ukraine it is considered normal for a politician to flirt with the Maidan. But in Russia, for a politician at the federal level, a member of the United Russia party, this is impossible. Will any organizational conclusions be drawn in the party? Or did the United Russia party decide to become the second Party of Regions?
Questions to the protege of Natalia Poklonskaya Alexander Porozhnyakov, I want to ask in the ideological sphere. His page contains the following entries.

Why does Alexander Porozhnyakov, who allegedly fights against insults on religious grounds, not reject insults on national grounds? According to the second screen, let me remind you that the Cossacks who were given out in Lienz were members of the SS organization. Adolf Hitler personally included them in this organization (see the article: A. Hitler. "Cossacks. German traces in the east." The official printed organ of the SS magazine "SS-Leitheft" No. 1, 1944). And after being included in the SS, the Cossacks swore allegiance to Hitler as the new Messiah. Is this the position of an Orthodox Christian - to glorify apostates? On the last screen we see the symbol of esoteric fascism - the "Black Sun". I would like to know why these people who support the Bolotnaya Square and distribute fascist symbols are trying to speak on behalf of all Orthodox in Russia.
Let's move on to the heresy of the tsar. The head of the "Royal Cross" movement is actively spreading the ideas of this heresy. The same is true of his movement.

You can get acquainted with the political program of the heresy of tsarebozhiya. The Russian Orthodox Church has given a religious, spiritual assessment of the heresy of tsarebozhy many times. I will cite only the words of Patriarch Kirill and Priest Daniil Sysoev.

Patriarch Kirill:
Addressing every person with a call to repentance is the most important mission of the Church, from which she will never retreat. But calls for universal repentance for what the current generation has not done are sly calls, because God Himself, having returned our shrines to us, has shown that He has forgiven our people.

Priest Daniil Sysoev:
This blasphemous doctrine of the “king-redeemer” fundamentally contradicts the New Testament and the teachings of the Ecumenical Church, which at the Fifth Ecumenical Council condemned the heresy of Origen, who spoke of the possibility of a second Redemption (although this heretic did not go as far as modern monarchists, for he attributed the second crucifixion not to a man, but to the Lord Jesus Himself). Let us note, by the way, that the concept of "king-redeemer" completely contradicts the doctrine of "the sin of regicide, not redeemed by the Russian people." The doctrine of the "Tsar-Redeemer" is not just a Khlyst heresy, but also an outright blasphemy against our Lord Jesus Christ - the only Redeemer of the human race, including the Russian people. This teaching falls under the anathematization of the week of Orthodoxy, condemning those who do not recognize the blood of Christ as the only means of justification.
It is clear that the Royal Cross movement does not like this position of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Since Alexander Porozhnyakov and the Tsar’s Cross movement position themselves as Orthodox, it can be assumed that they are members of the non-canonical schismatic so-called “Royal Orthodox Church (Brotherhood of the Tsar-Redeemer)”, which is aggressive towards the Russian Orthodox Church.
With all this in mind, it's completely understandable. reaction representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church: "Protodeacon Kuraev took the side of the Teacher in a dispute with Poklonskaya."
Alexander Porozhnyakov is interesting only as a protégé of Natalia Poklonskaya. With his statement about the screening of the film, made at the request of the Royal Cross movement, Natalia Poklonskaya politically linked herself to the heresy of tsarebozhiya.
Does she believe in this heretical doctrine? She never gave a direct answer to this question. But Poklonskaya many times committed acts that put her dangerously close to tsarebozhiya. The most famous is the provocation made at the Immortal Regiment campaign (see here: http://ruskom.livejournal.com/825236.html). The last one is political statement about the “once” miracle that occurred, performed by the icon of Nicholas II.

Summing up, Natalya Poklonskaya publicly linked her political fate with the heresy of tsarebozhiya. This heresy has been repeatedly condemned by the Russian Orthodox Church as a blasphemous teaching, fundamentally contradicting the New Testament.
A protégé of MP Natalia Poklonskaya (from the United Russia party) - a participant in the protests on Bolotnaya Square in the winter of 2011-2012.
The reaction of the ROC we saw. We are waiting for the reaction of United Russia.

At the very beginning of August, on the territory of the Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi in Moscow, a stand was held against the vile slanderous film "Matilda", but recently on the social network page in contact with one of the organizers - the movement "Royal Cross" (headed by Alexander Porozhnyakov), materials were found about the "king-redeemer", "the expiatory sacrifice of the holy Tsar Nicholas II" and other things incompatible with Orthodox teaching (photo attached below). Attempts to reason with Alexander on the part of Orthodox Christians were not successful.

Unfortunately, with regard to the film “Matilda”, we see people who promote a film that destroys the spiritual foundations of our country, but in addition to this, a danger has come from the other side - the struggle around “Matilda” makes it possible for people infected with the marginal heresy of tsarebozhy promoted to rise “upstairs”. once schismatic false bishop Cornelius. I post screenshots from the personal page of Alexander and the Royal Cross group, as well as the opinions of the Orthodox clergy on the identified issues.

“We acquainted the clergy of the Orthodox Church with the materials on the Royal Cross movement (headed by Alexander Porozhnyakov) and asked a number of questions on the heresy of the Tsarist God and the correct attitude to the raised issues on the part of Orthodox Christians.

A list of questions:

1. Is it possible to call the holy Tsar Nicholas a redeemer in any sense?

2. Is it permissible to use the concept of "expiatory sacrifice" in relation to him in any sense?

3. What is the correct name for people who consider the king a redeemer, etc.?

4. Do they fall under the anathema of the week of the Triumph of Orthodoxy: “To those who do not accept the grace of redemption by the Gospel preached, as our only means to justification before God: anathema.” ?

5. Is it possible to interact with the “Royal Cross” movement and similar organizations in the field of organizing events to counteract the showing of the film “Matilda”, let them speak on TV and radio broadcasts, collect signatures for them, help lead groups in social networks, repost their posts and other? Indeed, in fact, it turns out that the Orthodox often do not even suspect that they are working for those who are engaged in promoting distortions regarding the Holy Tsar.

Priest Andrei Barabash:

(1) “It is not permissible to call the holy Tsar Nicholas a redeemer in any sense. We do not know examples of any of the saints calling themselves a redeemer, just as we do not know examples of any saint calling any saint a redeemer, except for the God-man Jesus Christ, since they understood that this is blasphemy.

(2) We have one Redeemer, this is Christ, who Redeemed the sins of Mankind, and Tsar Nicholas is a man who himself needed Redemption and received Redemption in the sacrament of Baptism.

(3) A person who distorts the Orthodox dogma is called a heretic or misguided

Priest David Mindorashvili:

“Saints do not accept such worship of people that is not pleasing to God. Redemption is the greatest reality, extending to the entirety of the cosmos, both visible and invisible “judgment on judgment” (St. Maximus the Confessor), reconciles the fallen cosmos with God. On the cross It stretches out its hands to mankind and, as St. Gregory the Theologian, "a few drops of blood restore the entire universe." This means that the redemption of mankind, including Russia, has already been accomplished by the God-Man Jesus Christ. He is the true King-Redeemer. “to those who do not accept the grace of the atonement preached by the Gospel as the only means to our justification before God: anathema.” Proceedings in the week of Orthodoxy. I want to quote the words of Blessed Saint John (Maximovich), “St. Andrei Bogolyubsky with his blood consecrated the autocracy of Rus', which was established much later than his martyrdom. All-Russian veneration of St. Mikhail Tverskoy healed the wounds on the body of Russia caused by the struggle between Moscow and Tver. Glorification of St. Tsarevich Dimitri clarified the consciousness of the Russian people, breathed moral strength into them and, after severe upheavals, led to the revival of Russia. The Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II with his long-suffering family now enters the ranks of those martyrs… The Tsar-Martyr and his compassionate ones will become the new heavenly defenders of Holy Rus'”1 (the sin of regicide). Only in this sense can one speak of the Martyr Tsar Nicholas. In no case can one speak of him as the Tsar-Redeemer of Russia. This is heresy. It would be wrong to interact with the “Royal Cross” movement.

Priest Vladimir Stepanenko:

“Christ is in our midst! In the right questions you posed, the answers are already traced. Saint Tsar Nicholas cannot be called a redeemer in any sense. For the Redeemer is Christ alone. And the king, although a saint, is not without sin. And why is Christ the redeemer, because he sacrificed himself for the whole human race. And He endured the torment without a single fault. The feat of Tsar Nicholas cannot be called an expiatory sacrifice. People who consider the king a redeemer should be called heretics, no matter how scary and rude it sounds, but this is the truth!

The situation when Orthodox people collect signatures, make reposts and invite a movement infected with heresy to organize events looks frightening. I ask everyone to be attentive to the Royal Cross, its leader Alexander Porozhnyakov and those who have similar delusions. Do not pray with them, do not collect signatures for them and for them on their lists (signatures and letters can be sent directly to the authorities), do not repost, do not provide other assistance in the development of their groups, do not invite them to radio, TV and organizing committees ongoing events.

I believe that the Orthodox should take an active part in public life within the framework of the law, but the point is not how many signatures are collected and standings are held - by His grace, the Lord can immediately ban "Matilda", as in the case from the life of St. Nicholas, when he frightened the king in a dream and ordered the innocent governors to be released. But the Lord expects from us pure faith in accordance with Scripture and the Tradition of the Church, he expects our life in Christ in accordance with the rules of the Ecumenical Councils and the consent of the Holy Fathers. What ends communication with those who are infected with heresy is well known for the Orthodox by the example of the signing of the union of Byzantium with the Catholics...

I also ask you to be careful with the “miraculous” icons of the kings, since these are not icons, but non-canonical images that blaspheme Christ and his saints (there is a screen of such an icon in the appendix to the post).

There is a good article on the topic on the website of the Center for Religious Studies in the name of the Hieromartyr Irenaeus of Lyon, which deals with the problems of new religious movements, sects and cults. Here is an abridged excerpt from it:

« The icons of all Russian tsars, as well as Rasputin, were painted by the tsarebozhniks ... They often rewrite canonical icons according to their “theology”, depicting Tsar Nicholas II instead of Christ (for example, instead of the Christ Child in the Eucharistic chalice in the hands of John the Baptist). In general, their iconography is very developed, there are many icons of the Virgin, painted according to dreams and "visions" of followers (often followers) of heresy. For example, the blasphemous "icon" "Rus' Resurrecting" - where the Mother of God in white clothes holds her cover over Russia, eight-pointed crosses fall from the cover: those who catch them brighten, and those who run away and do not catch - turn black and turn into “heaps of shit” (together with the icon, the royalists distribute booklets describing its iconography). Many of their icons "stream myrrh" (from the Orthodox point of view, myrrh-streaming is not an indisputable criterion of truth; not all miracles are from God), the saints open and close their eyes on them. Even books with a presentation of their “miracles” stream myrrh, and the authors recommend applying their works to sore spots. As for many sectarians, miracles, myrrh-streaming, healing are unconditional proof and a sign of truth for the kings.»

And it's also written:

“Not everyone who says to Me: “Lord, Lord!” will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven. Many will say to Me on that day: Lord! God! Have we not prophesied in Your name? and did they not cast out demons in your name? and did they not work many miracles in your name? And then I will declare to them: I never knew you; depart from Me, you workers of iniquity. "(Mat. 7:21-23).

Representative of the movement "Royal Cross": "They abused the saint, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church"

A deputy's request to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the still unfinished film "Matilda" by Alexei Uchitel on the appeal of the "Royal Cross" movement. Its representatives considered that they were dealing with "an anti-Russian and anti-religious provocation in the sphere of culture." What exactly angered the movement, we asked its representative - "a public figure in the State Duma", as he introduces himself, Nikolai Mishustin.

Frame from the film.

Another non-banal title of Mr. Mishustin is the coordinator of the public committee for the protection of citizens' rights from "automated processing of personal data and electronic identification."

Nikolai Mishustin explained that the film “outraged the saint, canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church” (meaning Nicholas II, - “MK”). Recall that the canonization was not easy for the ROC: in the year 200, when the corresponding decision was made at the Council of Bishops, Metropolitan Nikolai of Nizhny Novgorod refused to sign the item on Nicholas II, because he considers him a traitor who sanctioned the collapse of Russia.

In addition, Mishustin said, the picture is “anti-Russian propaganda” because it “mocks sovereign symbols, and this is actually undermining national security.” A desecration of the saint, according to Mishustin, are "bed scenes with an incomprehensible diva, which have absolutely no historical evidence." He confirmed that he did not see the picture of Alexei Uchitel in full, but everything mentioned above is contained in the trailer.

The trailer lasts 2 minutes, the only scene that can be called erotic lasts less than a second. It depicts a naked man and woman, but they enter the frame only up to their shoulders.

“The director has embodied his erotomaniac fantasies, they no longer know where to put this pornography,” Mishustin added. “No one has done more damage to our culture than the Nazis,” he continued. - And when they use a German porn actor for the role of our king - this is a desecration, outrage comes. It doesn't fit in any way."

Nicholas II in the film The Teacher is played by German actor Lars Eidinger. A “pornographic” work is probably the painting by director Peter Greenway “Goltzius and the Pelican Company”, which tells about a series of works by the Dutch artist of the 16th–17th centuries Hendrik Goltzius on biblical and ancient subjects.

Greenway's films have repeatedly won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Also, the director's works received awards at the Venice and Berda film festivals.

Natalya Poklonskaya is once again in the center of attention of the Russian media in her career. Only if in the spring of 2014, after the annexation of Crimea, everyone discussed how harshly this fragile woman stigmatizes the Kyiv junta, now everyone is commenting on her uncompromising attitude towards the film "Matilda". The renaissance of Poklonskaya's media popularity even led bloggers to take an excerpt from her October 18 interview off the shelf, in which she attributed the phrase from "Woe from Wit" to Suvorov. "Fontanka" studied who pushed the deputy to write a request about the film of the St. Petersburg director Alexei Uchitel, which has not yet been released - and involuntarily opened this "Pandora's box".

The fact that State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya wrote a request to her former colleagues from the Prosecutor General's Office became known on November 2. The ex-prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea said that she was approached by representatives of the public organization "Royal Cross", who are convinced that the film by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda", which should be released in 2017, poses a "threat to national security." Recall that the picture tells about the romantic relationship between the heir to the royal throne, Nikolai Alexandrovich, and the ballerina Matilda Kshesinskaya.

"This film defiles the feelings of the Orthodox and contains unreliable, false information about our sovereign, who was canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, is our saint, martyr. That's why people turned to conduct an appropriate check," she explained on the air of the Dozhd TV channel. Poklonskaya herself has her own motive.

"Royal Cross"

The Tsar's Cross movement, which managed to indirectly quarrel Natalya Poklonskaya with a good half of the Russian elite, in fact, does not exist: there is no corresponding entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. In early October, a group with the same name appeared on VKontakte, its creator is Muscovite Alexander Porozhnyakov. He also calls himself "the leader of the Royal Cross movement." In 2013, he graduated from the Higher School of Economics, where he studied at the Faculty of Management. However, the struggle for the religious feelings of believers, it seems, turned out to be more interesting than boring numbers from financial reports.

The first post in the VKontakte community dates back to October 6: the administrator posted a link to an article from the Russian People's Line, a patriotic portal edited from St. Petersburg by Anatoly Stepanov, who once collaborated with the famous nationalist Konstantin Dushenov. The article talked about the fact that on July 17, on the anniversary of the murder of the royal family, a "prayer standing" took place on Suvorovskaya Square in Moscow. “Hegumen Kirill (Sakharov), who recently returned from a landmark trip to the Slavic centers in Europe (“Slavonic move”), spoke about the difficult situation in the Slavic movement ... Lawyer I.Yu. Chepurnaya recalled that the issue of an electronic card, a personal code, insurance certificate, which contains an entry about the “sex change” of a person, which harms not only the God-given freedom of Christians, but also the national security of Russia, is still not allowed in the legal field,” the report says.

And in the end, it is reported that the participants of the standing were read the text of the appeal to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation about the "slanderous anti-Orthodox film directed by A. Uchitel and his accomplices "Matilda"". "The appeal was approved, and 67 associates put their signatures under it," - stated at the end of this July report.

Gradually, Alexander Porozhnyakov - or his assistants in the "Royal Cross" - began to collect on the community page all the materials that appeared on little-known Orthodox sites and were dedicated to "Matilda". So, they reposted the June article from the Hodegetria portal. "Slandering a martyr is part of a satanic ritual," Victor Saulkin, an observer for radio Radonezh, begins his angry publicistic material.

“The blasphemous slander and lies of the vile film about the Holy Royal Family do not accidentally appear on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the revolution, which led to the collapse of the Russian Empire and the bloody fratricidal civil war. Today, the “international international of usurers”, who once sent a gang of Trotsky and other fanatics to Russia , hopes to repeat the scenario of the defeat of the Russian state and the pitting of the people in a fratricidal massacre.In 1991, our country, as it was in 1917, again found itself at the mercy of the “international of usurers.” But to the horror of the “world behind the scenes”, Russia once again breaks out from their paws,” the publicist is sure, adding that Alexei Uchitel in his film “lies with truly satanic sophistication.”

The "Royal Cross" group gathers the opinions of ordinary citizens as well. Here, for example, you can read an emotional post by a community subscriber, a resident of Tver, Mikhail Tarasov. "Fontanka" publishes it with the preservation of punctuation and spelling.

"I watched the trailer for Matilda - this film, which will soon be released in all cinemas around the world with translations, with captions ... I was horrified, because I watched this video much earlier, when I was a child in a dream. In my dream I was given the choice to go watch it or not. Someone warned me that if I watched the film, I would burn in the fire, I then disobeyed and nevertheless decided to take a look, I thought they would forgive the prank. I was shown the film and after 1.5 seconds, a fire started in the room, the curtains were burning, the actors... I especially remember the inhuman scream of the actress who played the harlot Matilda in the film, her beautiful dress was on fire from the inside, there was a wild desperate cry, everyone was on fire, including me, "wrote Mikhail Tarasov, whose right hand, according to his VKontakte page, is adorned with a tattoo with the text of the 90th psalm.

"Royal Cross" is interested not only in the events around the film "Matilda". The community, for example, reprinted an interview with the head of the Military Orthodox Mission, Igor Smykov, to the KGB-Inform portal. It says in particular:

“Most of the representatives of the “world elite” are members of Masonic lodges and practicing Satanists. According to the plans of Freemasonry, it is necessary to unleash a World War, in which the Christian world and the Muslim world must be pushed together. Through hostilities, famine and epidemics, reduce the world population to 500 million people who must be completely chipped, zombified and completely subordinate to the Antichrist. These events are described in the Revelation of the Holy Apostle John the Theologian, the beloved disciple of Christ," Igor Smykov is sure, who sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office about the film "Matilda" back in May 2016.

The correspondent of "Fontanka" turned to the creator of the "Royal Cross" Alexander Porozhnyakov, sharing her feeling that the community was specially created to fight against the new picture of Alexei Uchitel. “Unfortunately, you are deeply mistaken,” the activist replied. Note that, judging by his page on VKontakte, he is really interested not only in the imperial family. So, in early October, he reposted a message from Petrozavodsk resident Natalya Kuzmina, who became a defendant in a criminal case under Article 280 - "Public calls for extremist activities." In her message, she talks about searches and interrogations at the local FSB, indicating that the case was opened "for articles about Jews, and about Putin and the patriarch."

MP and fighter against cannibalism

Now, not only the Royal Cross is showing activity on the front of the confrontation with Matilda. Together with him, statements to various authorities are signed by the head of the Parental Otpor.rf movement, Nikolai Mishustin. There is also no trace of this organization in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. Mishustin himself on the Parental Otpor website calls himself a "people's deputy" and "a public figure in the State Duma." In the spring of 2016, he really spoke in the State Duma - at a round table organized with the support of the Communist Party faction and dedicated to juvenile justice.

“If you are not yet chipped and not in electronic shackles, it is written below why. The worst thing is that the distraught electrocolonizers in the authorities place the same hopes on an electronic concentration camp. On digital fascist technologies. And one prosecutor somewhere far away even told the complainant. Yes, how dare you go against the system??? But we are going against digital-fascism, against other fascist technologies. Like our fathers. 7 years already."

Finally, Mishustin and Porozhnyakov are accompanied by Irina Vasina, the head of the public organization Civil Opposition to Extremism. This movement was officially registered with the tax authorities in June 2016, after which the Moscow businesswoman Irina Vasina demanded that the police bring the writer Vladimir Sorokin to justice for the 2000 story "Nastya", written in the style of 19th-century Russian literature. The reason for the appeal was the desire of director Konstantin Bogomolov to film a story about a girl who was fried in the oven. Irina Vasina, who owns the company "Assessment Center-Soyuz", demanded that law enforcement agencies check this work for cannibalism propaganda.

Discussion around Poklonskaya

It must be admitted that the fighters against Matilda have very active supporters. So, they have already written a request to the Moscow Patriarchate, from where the following answer came:

"Given that the film grossly distorts the historical facts concerning the life of Emperor Nicholas II and members of the royal family, canonized as saints, this issue cannot be ignored by the Russian Orthodox Church ... The Patriarchal Council for Culture, together with the Synodal Department for relations between the Church and society and the media of the Moscow Patriarchate are preparing a corresponding appeal to the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation,” says the letter, signed by Alexander Parmenov, head of the program department of the Patriarchal Council for Culture and former editor-in-chief of the Pravoslavie.ru portal.

However, it was not this appeal that became the real bomb, but the request of State Duma deputy Natalia Poklonskaya, who, apparently, partially shares the views of activists from the Tsar's Cross, Parental Otpor and Civil Counteraction to Extremism. But, being in this company, she not only came under criticism from the liberal public, which quite predictably reacted to another attempt by conservative religious circles to influence the cultural process. Displeased raised eyebrows and those who are difficult to suspect of sympathy for the opposition. Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Culture Stanislav Govorukhin, who in 2012 was the head of Putin's campaign headquarters, said that the attempt to test "Matilda" "should be nipped in the bud." Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky, in turn, shrugged his shoulders and remarked that "it's stupid to check a film that hasn't been released."

Andrey Zakharov,