Spiritual and moral system of values ​​in ancient Russian literature. Presentation - family is the custodian of spiritual values

Municipal budgetary educational institution Lemeshkinsky secondary school of the Rudnyansky municipal district of the Volgograd region

ORKSE lesson in 4th grade

Bondareva Olga Viktorovna,

MBOU Lemeshkinskaya secondary school,

primary school teacher

Lemeshkino village, 2013.

Lesson topic: Spiritual values ​​of humanity. Culture. Religion.

Target: create conditions foracquaintance of students with world religions as spiritual values ​​of humanity. (values ​​of human culture)

Tasks:

    To form an idea of ​​culture and religion, their relationship

    To develop speech, logical and associative thinking of students, to promote the development of communication abilities, and the ability to argue their point of view.

    Foster tolerance and respect for different religious cultures

Formed UUD:

- identify your belonging to the people, country, state;

- show interest in the culture and history of your people, native country;

— distinguish between basic moral and ethical concepts;

- evaluate your own and others’ actions;

— evaluate (compare with a standard) the results of activity (someone else’s, one’s own);

— check information, find additional information using reference literature;

- perceive the text taking into account the assigned educational task, find in the text the information necessary to solve it.

Keywords: culture, religion, Orthodoxy, Islam, Buddhism, Judaism.

Equipment: multimedia equipment, presentation “Culture and Religion”, textbook “Fundamentals of Orthodoxy”, workbooks.

Lesson Plan

    Organization of students' activities.

    Discussion of the results of homework.

    Updating students' knowledge.

    Problematic question. Commented reading of an article from a textbook.

Answering questions and completing tasks from the student manual.

    Virtual tour.

Physical education minute.

    Independent work of students.

    Summarizing.

    Reflection.

    Homework.

DURING THE CLASSES:

I . Organization of student activities

Greetings. Creating a positive emotional mood. "Circle of Joy"

- Let's stand in a circle, say hello and wish the neighbor on the right something from the bottom of our hearts.

II . Updating students' knowledge.

The teacher repeats the words - the wishes of the children.

— How to describe all wishes in one word?values

Discussion of homework results

— What are values?

How do traditions differ from values?

Name something that unites us all.Rodina, Russia

— Do you think values ​​arose out of nowhere or are they created by man?

Values ​​can be material - toys, sweets... Social values ​​- friendship, honesty...Cultural values ​​- literature, painting... These also include valuesspiritual . Spiritual values, first of all, are what are associated with religion.

III . Learning new knowledge.

- Let's figure out what culture is? (Problematic question)

Name everything related to the word culture.

House of Culture, physical education, cultivated plants, culture of behavior.

— What general meaning does the word culture give to the words in the phrase?

Human influence.

So what is culture?

Children's answers .

— “Culture is the material and spiritual values ​​created by man throughout his history.”Slide 3

Working with the textbook.

Read the text. Highlight the semantic parts of the text that tell about culture.

Culture combines three areas: science, art and religion.

the science

Culture art

religion

People who contributed to the development of culture became famous.Slide 4.5.

In science these are Archimedes, Galileo, Mendeleev, etc. In art - P.I. Tchaikovsky, A.S. Pushkin,N.K. Roerichetc. Each of these people made an invaluable contribution to the development of culture. The works they created are the cultural heritage of not only our country, but also the world.

And there are famous personalities in religion. But what is religion?

How do you understand the meaning of the word “religion”? Introduction to the concepts of religion and ritual.Slide 6.

Teacher's story.

Religion - these are the thoughts and actions of a person who is convinced that the human mind is not alone in our world. Religions say that next to and even above man there is an invisible intelligent and spiritual world: God, angels, spirits... For many people, this belief becomes so deep that it determines their behavior and their culture.

In our country there live people of different nations and religions, and therefore in some ways have special cultures and beliefs. Including people who answer the question of whether there is a God differently and have different ideas about the relationship between man and God.

For thousands of years, religion has been and remains an important factor in the cultural life of people. Without faith, resulting in the form of a certain religion, not a single people existed. Religion reflects the history of a people, its traditions, way of life and cultural state.

We often don’t remember how many of the good things we use first appeared. It is not known, for example, who was the first to bake bread in history, but all nations bake bread. Somewhere the bread is baked white and round, similar to a pancake, and somewhere black and brick-shaped, but no matter what country you come to, you will probably try the local bread. In some places it will seem almost the same to you as in your homeland, in others it will be unusual, some you will like more, some less - there is no arguing about tastes. But in essence, bread is the same everywhere, and the customs associated with bread are the same. Probably, among all nations, the words “to share bread with someone” mean the same thing as “to find a friend.”

There are many differences in the culture and religion of different peoples. Each nation has its own way of life, its own customs. Somewhere at the table they use a knife and fork, somewhere they use special chopsticks, somewhere they build houses with flat roofs, and somewhere with gable roofs. Culture is the main wealth of the people. Religion does not exist separately from culture and from a people; every nation includes something from religion in its tradition, and brings something from tradition into religion.

— Do you know that in the modern world there are up to 3 thousand religions.

What religions do you already know?

Popular wisdom says“In countries where different religions coexist peacefully, their temples do not interfere with each other”

On the map of Russia you can see which religions coexist peacefully in our country.Slide 7

Let's take a virtual tour of the sacred buildings of different religions.

Slide 8,9,10,11

V . Primary consolidation of knowledge. — How do religions differ from each other?

Municipal budgetary educational institution

“Secondary school No. 1 of Novozybkov

named after twice Hero of the Soviet Union D.A. Dragunsky"

243020, Bryansk region, Novozybkov st. Kommunisticheskaya, 12

I approve

Director of MBOU "Secondary School No. 1"

A.V.Shchipakin

“The state’s concern for the preservation of spiritual values”

innovative development in the subject Fundamentals of the spiritual and moral culture of the peoples of Russia

Children's age: 5th grade

Developer:

Karagezova Svetlana Viktorovna,

social studies teacher

Novozybkov

“The state’s concern for the preservation of spiritual values.”

Lesson type

Learning new material

Goal, objectives

Target: Create conditions for the formation of ideas about spiritual values ​​and their influence on the life of society.

Tasks:

Educational – reveal the meaning of the concepts: “spiritual values”, “responsiveness”, “compassion”, “care”, “mercy”;

introduce students to the history of the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, its architectural features and events related to the Temple.

Developmental – develop thinking, speech, dialogue skills, the ability to listen to your interlocutor, interest in knowledge about the temple, motivation to study Orthodox culture.

Educational – to cultivate a respectful attitude towards each other, the culture and traditions of different peoples, and an attitude towards the spiritual, historical and cultural heritage.

Planned results of work

    Personal

- realize their belonging in preserving spiritual values; maintain motivation for educational activities; express a positive attitude towards the learning process.

    Subject

- will learn to define spiritual values ​​and respect the culture and traditions of different peoples. They will have the opportunity to learn how to work with the textbook text; analyze

    Metasubject (regulatory UUD, cognitive UUD, communicative UUD) :

- independently identify and formulate a cognitive goal;

- are active in interaction to solve communicative and cognitive problems;

- agree on the distribution of roles in joint activities, conduct a dialogue;

- formulate their own opinion;

- argue their point of view and assessment of events;

-strive to coordinate various positions in cooperation

Forms of monitoring and diagnosing the achievement of learning outcomes

    Educational dialogue

    Frontal conversation

    Self-test

    Working with problem assignments in groups.

Main

Vinogradova N.F. Fundamentals of the spiritual and moral culture of the peoples of Russia: 5th grade: a textbook for students of educational institutions / N.F. Vinogradova, V.I. Vlasenko, A.V. Polyakov. – M.: Ventana-Graf, 2016.

Additional

Internet resources

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1.Motivation (self-determination) for educational activities). The stage involves the student’s conscious entry into the space of learning activity in the lesson; creating conditions for the emergence of an internal need for inclusion in activities (“I want”), highlighting a content area (“ Can").

2 minutes

Emotional, psychological and motivational preparation of students to master the material being studied

Parable “Spiritual Values”

    Motivation for productive communication and activity in the classroom (method of emotional motivation, management).

    Setting a learning task and motivating it to complete it: the topic of the lesson is a secret; During the lesson, students must formulate the topic of the lesson independently (goal setting method); method of using the cognitive gap)

Once upon a time, there was an island on Earth where all spiritual values ​​lived. But one day they noticed how the island began to go under water. All the valuables boarded their ships and sailed away. Only Love remained on the island. She waited until the last minute, but when there was nothing left to wait, she also wanted to sail away from the island.
Then she called Wealth and asked to join him on the ship, but Wealth replied:
“There is a lot of jewelry and gold on my ship, there is no place for you here.”
When the ship of Sadness sailed past, she asked to come to her, but she answered her:
– Sorry, Love, I’m so sad that I always need to be alone. Then Love saw the ship of Pride and asked for her help, but she said that Love would disrupt the harmony on her ship.
Joy floated nearby, but she was so busy having fun that she didn’t even hear about the calls of Love.
Then Love completely despaired. But suddenly she heard a voice somewhere behind:
- Let's go, Love, I'll take you with me.
Love turned around and saw the old man. He took her to land and, when the old man sailed away, Love realized that she had forgotten to ask his name. Then she turned to Knowledge:
- Tell me, Knowledge, who saved me? Who was this old man?
Knowledge looked at Love:
– It was Time.
- Time? – asked Lyubov. “But why did it save me?”
Knowledge looked at Love again, then into the distance where the old man sailed:
– Because only Time knows how important Love is in life.

Guys, what do you think we will talk about in class today?

State the objectives of the lesson? What do you already know that you don't know that you would like to learn in class?

Individual self-organization;

They listen, discuss the topic of the lesson, the goals of the lesson and try to formulate them independently.

About spiritual values.

Front work

Communication (communication, interaction, listening skills).

Regulatory (goal setting, motivation, self-organization).

Personal (self-esteem, development of the image of “I” through self-esteem organization)

Personal: strive to study well and are focused on participating in the student’s affairs; correctly identify themselves from positions schoolboy.

Regulatory : independently formulate the goals of the lesson after preliminary discussion.

2. Update .

5 minutes

Conversation

Method “House is a symbol of happiness”

There is a house in front of you. Spiritual values ​​live here. Write down words characterizing spiritual values ​​in the “house” windows. A list of concepts will help you find the right words (responsiveness, love, wealth, compassion, money, well-being, mercy, kindness).

What does the phrase “spiritual values” mean? Let's turn to Ozhegov's dictionary.

They write words in the windows of the house.

Working with a dictionary

Individual work

Cognitive: search for the necessary information.

Communicative e:

Express their own opinions; listen to each other.

Verbal responses

Notebook entries

3. Learning new material

26 minutes

1. Presentation “Cathedral of Christ the Savior”.

2. Film “Cathedral of Christ the Savior”

Brainstorm

Demonstration of the film “Cathedral of Christ the Savior”.

    Shows presentation slides and comments on new information.

    Organizes work with the textbook.

    Organizes a film screening.

The modern world is complex and contradictory. Humanity has achieved heights in science and technology, but man himself, his soul, and inner world still remain a mystery. Scientists are trying to understand why modern man lacks spiritual values ​​- love, compassion. Responsiveness, kindness. Why are there many people today who consider well-being and money to be their main values? As a rule, these people are indifferent, envious, and angry. Cruel. In order to preserve the spiritual values ​​of the Russian people, it is necessary to unite the efforts of the state and public organizations, including religious ones. Today the state recognizes the special role of traditional religions in the development of the spiritual and moral culture of Russia. It protects a person's right to practice any religion. Today in our country, monuments of spiritual heritage are being restored, temples, monasteries, mosques, and synagogues are being built. Thousands of pilgrims visit holy places every year. All these facts indicate the revival of the spirituality of Russia, the desire of our state to preserve the eternal values ​​that previous generations of Russians have developed.

- Is studying the subject “Fundamentals of the Spiritual and Moral Culture of the Peoples of Russia” at school an indicator of the state’s concern for the preservation of spiritual culture?

-Based on the illustrations on pages 130-132 and the captions for them, compose a story about how the spirituality of Russia is being revived.

-Which temple are we talking about?

- “Museum of the Great Borodino Glory.” What battle does the author mention, what do you know about it? Let's listen to the reports of your classmates about the events of that time.

The teacher asks the students to express their impressions of what they heard .

Teacher: In October 1917, a revolution occurred in Russia and the Bolsheviks, ideological atheists, came to power. It became clear to many: the Cathedral of Christ the Savior is doomed. It was decided to blow up the temple, having previously removed everything valuable from there. 413 kilograms of gold alone were removed from the domes.

Teacher: In 1931, the Temple-Monument of Military Glory, the main temple of Russia, ceased to exist. Only in the late 80s of the 20th century a campaign to raise funds for the restoration of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was launched. In the archives they found the drawings from which the architect worked.

And in 1994-1997, the Great Temple ascended from oblivion - the Main Temple of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Memorial Temple, the Martyr Temple - the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Years have passed. The Orthodox faith and culture began to revive in Russia. And the Cathedral of Christ the Savior rose in its primeval beauty!

1. Get acquainted with new information, ask clarifying questions, discuss new information.

2. Get acquainted with new terms. Discuss the results of the answers.

3.Work with the textbook.

4.Watch the film and answer questions.

5.Answer questions.

O Cathedral of Christ the Savior, you again

You stand, having risen to your former heights!

My enthusiastic word to you,

My soul's ecstatic flight!

How majestic and how beautiful you are

In unimaginable beauty

Golden crosses, and domes, and towers.

Figures and walls in their snowy purity!

How the hand of the evil “creators” rose

Blow you up - the sanctuary of Christ.

Museum of the Great Borodino Glory,

Here created by the will of the Creator!

Praise be to Him and to all who by the will of God

He gave this Temple to Russia again!

And may the road lead us all here

To the divine speaking lips!

Russia will be and will be reborn again

To her great righteous deeds!

The key to this is the rise in the capital

The majestic Temple of Christ the Savior!

First speaker: In 1812, Napoleon's troops crossed the Russian border. The Emperor of the French dreamed of subjugating our country. “Three more years and I’m the master of the world,” said Napoleon. He was counting on a quick and easy victory. According to Napoleon's plans. After several battles, Russia had to sue for peace. However, contrary to the expectations of the French emperor, he met desperate resistance in Russia. And not only the army, but the entire people.

Second speaker : Not far from Moscow, near the village of Borodino, on September 7, 1812, the Russian army under the command of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov gave battle to the French. All day long, cannon fire thundered across the field. Cavalry attacks succeeded one another, more and more infantry regiments went on the attack. Both armies suffered huge losses, but neither side was able to win. By the end of the day, the armies remained in their original positions. Kutuzov made a difficult decision: to save the army. He took her to new frontiers south of Moscow. In vain Napoleon waited on Poklonnaya Hill for a delegation of Muscovites with the keys to the city.

Third speaker : The French entered Moscow, but did not feel like winners. A few days later the fires started. The soldiers did not have enough food. Without waiting for proposals for peace, Napoleon decides to leave Moscow. Russian troops expelled the French army, completing a victorious campaign in Paris. In honor of the victory over the French and in memory of the fallen Russian soldiers, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was erected in Moscow.

Fourth speaker : December 25, 1812. When the last soldier of Napoleon's army was expelled from Russia. Emperor Alexander was the first to sign a decree on the construction of a temple in Moscow in the name of the Savior. In 1817, the ceremonial foundation stone of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Vorobyovy Gory took place. However, problems soon arose. Due to the fragility of the soil, which has underground streams, the new autocrat Nicholas ordered the suspension of work. In 1832, Nicholas was the first to approve a new design for the temple, drawn up by the architect Konstantin Ton. The Emperor personally chose the location for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - on the banks of the Moscow River not far from the Kremlin.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior took 44 years to build. Only in 1860 did the temple first appear before Muscovites in its grandeur. The best architects, builders and artists of that time worked on the creator of the temple according to the design of K.A. Ton. The unique painting was created by artists of the Russian Academy of Arts V. Surikov, I. Kramskoy, V Vereshchagin.

Fifth doktadchik : The Temple is a living chronicle of the struggle of the Russian people with the conqueror Napoleon, and the names of the valiant heroes, through whom God showed salvation to the Russian people, were printed on marble plaques located in the lower gallery of the Temple.

In 1883, the solemn consecration of the Temple took place. From that time on, regular services began in the Temple. Coronations, national holidays and anniversaries were solemnly celebrated in the church: the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the 1900th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812. Thus ended the first stage of the life of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Source text:

«… They couldn’t carry them out through the wide-open bronze doors; they dragged out wonderful marble sculptures with nooses around their necks. They were simply thrown from high steps into the mud. The hands, heads, and wings of angels were broken off. Crosses were pulled down from small domes with steel cables using powerful tractors. The priceless marble lining of the walls was being destroyed by jackhammers. The paintings on the walls of the cathedral were destroyed. The workers began to bite into the three-meter-thick walls with hammers. But the walls offered stubborn resistance. Jackhammers broke. Neither crowbars nor heavy sledgehammers could overcome the resistance of the stone. They couldn't do anything with the walls. They did not give in... And then the order came: to blow up the cathedral... Only the force of powerful explosions turned the grandiose creation of Russian art into a pile of rubble and debris.”

1. Individual work.

2. front work

Work in pairs

Educational dialogue

Personal: determine their personal position; comprehend the traditions and values ​​of modern society.

Regulatory : take into account established rules in planning and controlling the solution method; carry out step-by-step control.

Cognitive: create on their own algorithms for solving problems of various types.

Communicative: take into account different opinions and strive to coordinate different positions in cooperation; formulate their own opinions and positions

Verbal responses

Verbal responses

conversation

conversation

4.Primary comprehension and consolidation of what has been learned .

5 minutes

1.Which Russian emperor decided to build the Cathedral of Christ the Savior?

A) Alexander I; b) Alexander III; c) Nicholas I; d) Paul I.

2.In memory of what event was the Cathedral of Christ the Savior founded?

A) the fight against the Napoleonic invasion;

B) annexation of the Caucasus;

B) reunification with Ukraine.

3. Who is the creator of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior project?

A) K.Ton; b) V. Surikov;

B) O. Lapina; d) In Stasov.

4. In what place did the foundation stone of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior take place in 1832, the project of which was approved by Nicholas I?

A) on the banks of the Moscow River;

B) on Sparrow Hills;

B) in Luzhniki.

5. Which artists worked on the painting of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior?

A) V Surikov;

B) And Kramskoy;

C) G Semiradsky;

D) In ​​Vereshchagin.

6. What anniversaries and holidays were celebrated in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior?

A) 500th anniversary of the death of S. of Radonezh;

B) 100th anniversary of the victory in the Patriotic War of 1812;

C) 50th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1945;

D) 2000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ.

self-test

Cognitive:

They independently search for the necessary information.

Regulatory: refer to the textbook e.

test

4. Lesson summary. Reflection.

2 minutes

Conducts a conversation on the following questions:

What are spiritual values?

What is the concern of the state and public organizations about the protection of spiritual values?

What should we do today to preserve spiritual values?

Answer questions. Determine their emotional state in class.

Frontal survey

Personal : understand the importance of knowledge for a person and accept it

Regulatory: predict the results of the level of mastery of the material.

Evaluating students for their work in class

5.Homework

2 minutes

P.129-135

Specifies homework (optional)

1) Select an object of cultural heritage and draw up “Rules of conduct in a museum (estate, palace, temple).”

2) Using additional literature and Internet resources, find out what churches there are in our region; which ones have been restored and which ones remain to be restored. Name the temples whose restoration is ongoing.

Write down homework

Individual work

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Slide captions:

The state's concern for the preservation of spiritual values ​​Prepared by: primary school teacher Svetlana Aleksandrovna Matveeva 2015 Fundamentals of the Spiritual and Moral Culture of the Peoples of Russia 5th grade

Constitution of the Russian Federation Article 44. 1. Everyone is guaranteed freedom of literary, artistic, scientific, technical and other types of creativity and teaching. 2.Everyone has the right to participate in cultural life and use cultural institutions, to have access to cultural values. Everyone is obliged to take care of the preservation of historical and cultural heritage, to protect historical and cultural monuments.

Academician D.S. Likhachev said: “If a person does not like to at least occasionally look at old photographs of his parents, does not appreciate the memory of them left in the garden that they cultivated, which belonged to them, then he does not love them. If a person doesn’t like old streets, even bad ones, it means he doesn’t have love for his city. If a person is indifferent to the historical monuments of his country, he is, as a rule, indifferent to his country.”

Monument to Hermogenes

Unveiling of the monument to Hermogenes

Monument to Minin and Pozharsky

Mosques in Kazan

Buddhist temple in Chita

Buddhist temple in St. Petersburg

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Monastery

New Jerusalem Monastery in the Moscow region

Verkhoturye Monastery in the Urals

Seraphim-Diveevo Monastery

Cathedral of Christ the Savior

Museum-Reserve "Tsarskoye Selo"

Syuyumbike “The Leaning Tower”

Museum of Folk Wooden Architecture "Vitoslavice"

Shiryaevo Museum, Samara Region

KAZAN CATHEDRAL. In the very heart of the city stands a majestic five-domed temple with a high bell tower. This is the Kazan Cathedral, one of the most beautiful and rich churches in the Volga region. The grace of God truly extends over him. After all, the cathedral remained one of the few buildings in Syzran that survived the terrible fire of 1906. The entire city was engulfed in flames, and the cathedral rose among the flames, like a martyr at the stake, with its majestic bell tower. It survived thanks to the watchman, who put out the fire that spread to the temple in time.

SYZRAN KREMLIN. Syzran became the only city in the Samara province where its heart, the Kremlin, was preserved. It has become not just a symbol and calling card of our small homeland. The Syzran Kremlin combines two ideas - the valiant past of the city, founded to protect the outlying borders of Russia, and the truth of the Christian faith.

Cathedral of Christ the Savior Chapel of the Iveron Icon of the Mother of God Moscow Kremlin Monument to Minin and Pozharsky Spassky Gate Bell tower of Ivan the Great and the Tsar Bell

The state, society and every person should take care of the preservation of spiritual values

Thank you for your attention!

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Filling out the table. The table has 2 columns: 1- how the state cares about the preservation of spiritual values; 2- example (from the presentation text and textbook)

1. Get acquainted with new information, ask clarifying questions, discuss new information.

2. Get acquainted with new terms. Discuss the results of the answers.

3.Work with the textbook.

4.Watch the film and answer questions.

5.Answer questions.

O Cathedral of Christ the Savior, you again

You stand, having risen to your former heights!

My enthusiastic word to you,

My soul's ecstatic flight!

How majestic and how beautiful you are

In unimaginable beauty

Golden crosses, and domes, and towers.

Figures and walls in their snowy purity!

How the hand of the evil “creators” rose

Blow you up - the sanctuary of Christ.

Museum of the Great Borodino Glory,

Here created by the will of the Creator!

Praise be to Him and to all who by the will of God

He gave this Temple to Russia again!

And may the road lead us all here

To the divine speaking lips!

Russia will be and will be reborn again

To her great righteous deeds!

The key to this is the rise in the capital

The majestic Temple of Christ the Savior!

First speaker: In 1812, Napoleon's troops crossed the Russian border. The Emperor of the French dreamed of subjugating our country. “Three more years and I’m the master of the world,” said Napoleon. He was counting on a quick and easy victory. According to Napoleon's plans. After several battles, Russia had to sue for peace. However, contrary to the expectations of the French emperor, he met desperate resistance in Russia. And not only the army, but the entire people.

Second speaker: Not far from Moscow, near the village of Borodino, on September 7, 1812, the Russian army under the command of Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov gave battle to the French. All day long, cannon fire thundered across the field. Cavalry attacks succeeded one another, more and more infantry regiments went on the attack. Both armies suffered huge losses, but neither side was able to win. By the end of the day, the armies remained in their original positions. Kutuzov made a difficult decision: to save the army. He took her to new frontiers south of Moscow. In vain Napoleon waited on Poklonnaya Hill for a delegation of Muscovites with the keys to the city.

Third speaker: The French entered Moscow, but did not feel like winners. A few days later the fires started. The soldiers did not have enough food. Without waiting for proposals for peace, Napoleon decides to leave Moscow. Russian troops expelled the French army, completing a victorious campaign in Paris. In honor of the victory over the French and in memory of the fallen Russian soldiers, the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was erected in Moscow.

Fourth speaker: December 25, 1812. When the last soldier of Napoleon's army was expelled from Russia. Emperor Alexander was the first to sign a decree on the construction of a temple in Moscow in the name of the Savior. In 1817, the ceremonial foundation stone of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior on Vorobyovy Gory took place. However, problems soon arose. Due to the fragility of the soil, which has underground streams, the new autocrat Nicholas ordered the suspension of work. In 1832, Nicholas was the first to approve a new design for the temple, drawn up by the architect Konstantin Ton. The Emperor personally chose the location for the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior - on the banks of the Moscow River not far from the Kremlin.

The Cathedral of Christ the Savior took 44 years to build. Only in 1860 did the temple first appear before Muscovites in its grandeur. The best architects, builders and artists of that time worked on the creator of the temple according to the design of K.A. Ton. The unique painting was created by artists of the Russian Academy of Arts V. Surikov, I. Kramskoy, V Vereshchagin.

Fifth doktadchik: The Temple is a living chronicle of the struggle of the Russian people with the conqueror Napoleon, and the names of the valiant heroes, through whom God showed salvation to the Russian people, were printed on marble plaques located in the lower gallery of the Temple.

In 1883, the solemn consecration of the Temple took place. From that time on, regular services began in the Temple. Coronations, national holidays and anniversaries were solemnly celebrated in the church: the 500th anniversary of the death of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the 1900th anniversary of the Patriotic War of 1812. Thus ended the first stage of the life of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Source text:

«… They couldn’t carry them out through the wide-open bronze doors; they dragged out wonderful marble sculptures with nooses around their necks. They were simply thrown from high steps into the mud. The hands, heads, and wings of angels were broken off. Crosses were pulled down from small domes with steel cables using powerful tractors. The priceless marble lining of the walls was being destroyed by jackhammers. The paintings on the walls of the cathedral were destroyed. The workers began to bite into the three-meter-thick walls with hammers. But the walls offered stubborn resistance. Jackhammers broke. Neither crowbars nor heavy sledgehammers could overcome the resistance of the stone. They couldn't do anything with the walls. They did not give in... And then the order came: to blow up the cathedral... Only the force of powerful explosions turned the grandiose creation of Russian art into a pile of rubble and debris.”