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There is a legend that shortly after the start of the Great World War II, when a mortal looming over the country of Soviets danger, Stalin met with the famous Moscow elder Matrona Nikonova (Matrona of Moscow after her canonization in saints), who knew how to predict the future. And this meeting has become decisive in the future fate of the USSR. This meeting is narrated even an icon.
Blind Girl – Future Saint Matron
Matron Nikonova was born in 1885 in a central Russian village Sebino, which is located in the Tula region only eleven kilometers from the famous Kulikov field. Born blind, girl soon showed an amazing gift of healing and foresight, therefore, from the age of eight she became the main nurse of a large family Nikonovs, because the afflicted people flocked to her from all around, yes and the country as a whole. There was a case when Matrena for a few miles a man crawled, from childhood not knowing how to walk, and from her went on his own – These are the miracles that this blind girl did.
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At fourteen, in St. Andrew’s Cathedral, she met with the famous Christian preacher John of Kronstadt, who called Matron the eighth spiritual pillar of Russia, that is the greatest saint that will replace him. And so it happened among the greatest Russian saints today and Matron Moscow.
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After the October Revolution, the blind Matron leaves to live in Moscow, since in the village it began to interfere with the Bolshevik brothers. At first the blessed wandered in different angles, then since 1942 took root in Starokonyushenny Lane near Zinaida Zhdanova, her a fellow villager who later leaves a biography of this saint women.
Secret meeting of Matron and Stalin
In the fall of 1941, not without the supply of leaflets and German radio, by Moscow rumored that Stalin had left the capital. The panic began, tens of thousands of citizens stormed the train, formed on the roads creepy traffic jams from cars and horse-drawn carts. But fled in a panic not only ordinary Muscovites, frightened by the approach to the fascist capital, but and leaders of all stripes.
Indeed, for Stalin, an armored train and four Douglas aircraft. However, they did not wait for the Secretary General, true, one of the Douglas with the personal pilot of the Commander-in-Chief still took to the air and flew around Moscow three times, carrying on board miraculous icon of the Mother of God of Kazan, which has repeatedly saved Russia from such troubles and misfortunes. It is believed that this just the old Matron advised to make the leader.
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Her meeting with him took place in Sokolniki, where the seer on that the moment huddled in the extension of the Tikhon Zadonsky temple. In church the courtyard, they say, that evening a few dozen suffering languished in anticipation of their turn to Matron, suddenly three drove up black “funnel” from which the Kremlin guards came out, something whispered to the assembled – and those who were blown away by the wind.
Stalin himself stepped out of the car into the empty courtyard, followed by him followed by his faithful secretary, Alexander Poskrebyshev. They went to summer extension to the old woman, then Poskrebyshev left, and the formidable the secretary general had a private conversation with Matron. What were they talking about, no one knows for sure, but it’s not hard to guess what a great the seer predicted victory for Russia, however, under certain conditions that the head of state had to fulfill. And Stalin apparently, they fulfilled them …
Matron, unlike the resident, was not mistaken
Why did Stalin turn to Matron? We often say about the impending Nazi attack on the USSR German leadership has repeatedly warned resident Richard Sorge, who even gave exact dates for the start of the war. However it is far from it, Sorge constantly changed these dates, and most often claimed that Germany would attack England first.
But Matron Nikonov said that a terrible war would begin in 1941 All Saints holiday – June 22. This is her prophecy in Moscow passed from mouth to mouth. And it’s hard to imagine that no one from the NKVD did not know about this and did not inform Stalin.
After meeting with the old woman, he not only did not leave the capital, but also held two powerful actions that contribute to raising morale Russian people. This is a solemn meeting of the Moscow Council, which took place on November 6 at the Mayakovskaya metro station, and at the next day in the October holiday – the legendary parade on Red Square, from which the Red Guards immediately went to front.
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It is noteworthy that Stalin addressed the people from the rostrum. Orthodox custom, calling the gathered in the square brothers and sisters, also mentioning the great Russian princes-liberators Dmitry Donskoy and Alexander Nevsky. Soon by order of the chapter states were returned to believers temples and monasteries, priests released from prisons, persecution of the church as a whole was stopped …
What gave birth to Matron in the soul of Stalin?
Many historians argue that the Secretary General was an ardent atheist, and therefore, his meeting with Matron simply could not be by definition. However, why is it so cool suddenly in World War II Has the state policy towards the church changed? Maybe, Stalin did not believe in God before, however, after meeting with Matron something turned upside down in his soul.
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For example, his adoptive son Artem Sergeev wrote that his father secretly He believed in God, although he did not show, did not demonstrate his faith. And the bodyguard of Stalin, Yuri Soloviev, claims that he has seen more than once through the window, as the leader prayed in the Kremlin Church. Grandson of stalin Alexander Bourdonsky also claims that grandfather even confessed, why the priest Khrushchev’s toadies then shook thoroughly, wanting to find out what the leader spoke to him about all nations. Only the priest did not reveal anything to them, keeping a secret confession …
Such facts are also interesting: Stalin any anti-religious books called literary trash, waste paper, he once banned Demyan Poor’s play “The Heroes”, calling it slander, since she ridiculed the church and the spirituality of the Russian people. And such plenty of examples …
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Finally, why did it suddenly come up with the idea of writing an icon on which depicts Matron Moscow blessing Stalin on defense of the homeland? And although even the churchmen themselves do not consider it canonical, because such a secret meeting, even if it was, cannot be considered a historical fact, icon painter I.Pivnikov from somewhere took this spiritual image and transferred it to the icon (in the present moment is stored in Strelna – in the Holy Temple Equal-to-the-Apostles Princess Olga).
It must be assumed that the meeting of the old woman Matrona and the head of the country Advice still took place. And although only indirect evidence of this facts, but there are too many of them, and some of the following events are difficult to explain with anything other than the fact that the Higher forces through Matron brought to Stalin some spiritual truths, to which he simply could not help but listen …
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