Mikhail Sitnikov Biography

About himself on his website: “G. Lawyer, human rights activist. The political officer of the Hurry“ Russian Thought ”. A convinced opponent of the totalitarian principle of state structure, a supporter of the cultural integration of Russia into Christian civilization based on political and religious tolerance. Consides any orientation to the ideology of sovereignty - from communist to the Orthodox.

"I can’t be silent." However, the fact that this person appears in the eyes of the majority of an almost unearthly being, did not save him from the common to many Russians of the complex of creating a myth about himself. The closeness of the region, in which our hero still holds a high position, most often guarantees such myths a long and glorious life. But, fortunately, there is such an institute in the world as an archive.

And this, sometimes because of the most unexpected finds, allows you to quite successfully separate the wheat from the tares. So, Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger, born in the city of Tallinn on February 23. In young years, I had to survive the horrors of war and occupation, to see the suffering of our people, and then in pastoral activities - to face grief, which visited almost every family, as a result of the death of the Fathers, Brothers and Sons on the battlefield.

"After graduating from eight grades of the 6th secondary school, summer Alexei Ridiger is satisfied The Cathedral of Tallinn and somehow avoids a call to the army in October years, having already graduated from the seminary, Alexei Ridiger is ordained a priest and appointed rector of the Yykhvian Epiphany Church, from where his real career begins. My further ministry took place in the university city of Tartu; I was also appointed dean, ”recalls Metropolitan Alexy.

Having graduated in absentia in the year the Leningrad Theological Academy, he serves the rector of the same church in the Yykhvi and, part -time, rector of the Nikolsky parish of the village of Yama. And since the year the rector of the Tartu Assumption Cathedral, while performing the functions of the dean of the dean. And he bypasses one very significant page of his biography, namely, the marriage of the rector of the Tallinn Orthodox Church of the Virgin is exactly before the adoption of the priestly dignity.

"Drozdov", the year of birth, a priest of the Orthodox Church, with a higher education, a candidate of theology, perfectly speaks the Russian, Estonian and poorly German languages. It was recruited on February 28 on patriotic feelings to identify and develop an anti -Soviet element from among the Orthodox clergy, among which it has ties representing operational interest for the KGB organs.

"Judging by the lists of the current priesthood in the Tallinn diocese and on the orientation, given in accordance with the official instructions" On the preparation of reports on agents ", in the certificate The KGB recruiter could only go about our hero. The believing of the family, the priest’s son, fell out of a very difficult fate. The dedication, which was secretly in the forest, ended with the words of the bishop, clearly not entering the rank of ordination: "And it will be the most difficult for all." During the war, the priest was subjected to incredible difficulties, ended up in the occupation, where he managed to promote the resistance to the Nazis, under tragic circumstances he lost his son and daughter.

And having later been with his wife and three surviving children in a camp for displaced persons near Tallinn, he was practically doomed to decades of camps. But it is noteworthy that none other than Archpriest Mikhail Ridiger, the father of the future “curator” about. Valeria from the KGB, agent "Drozdova". Reading documents, it is easy to guess that the "development" of. Valery of Beda was imputed in a special merit to the priest Drozdov.The successful work of the energetic Orthodox priest-agent in the KGB bodies was noticed by the high authorities, which guaranteed him advance on the service ladder.

The report of the authorities responsible for the agent once again indicates how and from whom the avant -garde of the “Soviet Church” was formed, which announces today about its creeds and possession of special grace. During the period of cooperation with the KGB authorities, Drozdov established itself on the positive side, is neat, energetic and sociable in the appearances.

It is well versed in theoretical in the text. Solzhenitsyn by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR about the deprivation of its citizenship of the USSR, ”writes Metropolitan and Estonian Alexy on February 17 in his resume,“ is quite correct and even humane and meets the will of our whole people, as evidenced by the reaction of Soviet people to the decision of the Presidium of the Supreme Council.

Church people completely approve of this decision and believe that the words of AP are applicable to A. Solzhenitsyn and the like. John the Theologian: "They came out of us, but were not our" 1 in. Solzhenitsyn does not have the right to make an assessment of the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church, for, first of all, it should be noted amazing ignorance in the religious issues of a person who decided to denounce and teach the church hierarchy.

"But a simple, state -owned message with the application of the receipt of the receipt, like any nomenclature paper, must be aged ideologically. Therefore: “The consistent peaceful policy of our state finds the deepest understanding and support aimed at restraining the crazy arms race, for the phased reduction of nuclear arsenals, to meet the year of our era free from the nuclear threat.

The high -revered Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev shows a bright example of the goodwill of the Soviet state, making a decision on a one -to -end moat. Will they be a prudence or will they follow the course of adventurism and madness?