The Bank of Russia has suspended the release of the 1,000 ruble banknote with a new design, introduced on October 16. Post this sent on the organizer’s website.
“It has been decided to stop the issuance of banknotes at this time. “The publication was not widely circulated,” he notes.
It’s about the cross
Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Russia Sergei Belov presented the new banknotes of 1,000 and 5,000 rubles at a press conference two days ago. The banknotes retained the same color scheme, but the images on them were changed.
A thousand rubles are made in blue and green tones. In the front is the Nikolskaya Tower of the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, and in the back is the State Historical Museum of the Tatar People in Kazan, the Syuyumbike Tower on the territory of the Kazan Kremlin and the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography. Ufa.
Priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, blogger and TV presenter Pavel Ostrovsky Telegram -channel criticized the new design:
“What, comrades, have you completely lost your fear? On the new 1000 ruble banknote you depict a minaret with a crescent and the dome of an Orthodox church without a cross. Don’t play with fire.”
The State History Museum of the Tatar People and the Republic of Tatarstan is located in a building built in the 17th century. They were going to place the Palace or the Vvedenskaya Church there. It was rebuilt in the following century. The building burned twice. In 1918 the church was looted and turned into a canteen. In 2002, the building was restored and a museum was placed here. The dome of the church is preserved, but there is no cross on it.
The “crescent minaret” mentioned by Ostrovsky is the Syuyumbike tower. It was previously used as a guard. At first there was a double-headed eagle at the top of the tower, but after the signing of the decree on the return of monuments of national history and culture to Muslims in 1918, it was replaced by a crescent. It is currently a tourist site.
According to Ostrovsky, there is no difference in how the building is currently used.
“… 99% of Russian residents who will use this bill do not know the history of the Kazan Kremlin. For them it will be a temple without a cross and a minaret with a crescent.” Wrote priest.
Ostrovsky believes that this choice was made either due to the “stupidity of the designers” or due to the “deliberate provocation of the adherents of Islam from Tatarstan.”
“Irrational and even provocative”
Vladimir Legoida, Head of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society, Media and the Moscow Patriarchate, telegram channel He called for more careful selection of images on banknotes.
“To avoid creating tension where there might not be any. The official said this should definitely not be the case.
Andrei Klishas, Chairman of the Constitutional Legislation and Statebuilding Committee of the Federation Council, in his speech Telegram I agree with this view:
“A temple without a cross reminds us of the dark era of atheism, and putting such an image on banknotes is at least illogical and even provocative.”
He added that he hoped the incident would not happen again.
“No problem”
at the radio station “Moscow speaks” Vakhtang Kipshidze, Deputy Head of the Synodal Department for Relations Between Church-Society and Media of the Moscow Patriarchate, did not see “any problem” in what happened.
“Our position is quite understandable and clear. Our monuments with crosses, Orthodox religious structures, our existing churches, bell towers, etc., if there are images without crosses anywhere, they are actually on them – this, in our opinion, is a certain form. a kind of blasphemy. If in this example of a banknote we are not talking about a church building, then there is absolutely no problem in not having a cross on it. Why would there be a cross there if it wasn’t there in life?” – Kipshidze wondered.
Leading expert of the State Historical Museum of the Tatar People Liliya Khairutdinova in an interview with the publication “To climb” Stating that the cross on the dome has been missing for more than a hundred years:
“This church was originally built as the palace church of the governor’s family. It was built in the 19th century. As soon as the construction of the palace was completed, they began to build a church in parallel. It continued its function throughout the 19th century, and when the Soviet power came, there was a warehouse, then an archive, a canteen, and our museum was opened in 2006. And after the coming of Soviet power, it no longer functioned as a church. However, the dome shape was preserved.”
The expert did not know that the business was included in the thousand-ruble bill, but he hopes it will attract tourists.