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Denis Kamalyagin *
chief editor of the newspaper «Pskov province». The Ministry of Justice included Kamalyagin in the register of foreign media agents
I should have written about the opening of the memorial in Samolva, which was attended by Putin and Patriarch Kirill, but here's the bad luck: the center for combating extremism of the police of the Pskov region was not devoted to the plans for my patriotic task. The day before, they said that they began to check me for a crime under Article 207.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation: what does this mean? This means that after that for the next ten hours or so, you do not work, but explain to your colleagues that you are okay. Or not very well.
Oh, let's talk about Nevsky: the memorial to Prince Alexander Nevsky in the village of Samolva in the Pskov region is such a soul of symbols and ideology, which in the Pskov region began to multiply by budding under Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov Tikhon Shevkunov. Most of all, the army and the Russian Orthodox Church are trusted in Russia: the church initiated the construction of the monument, and the Ministry of Defense erected it in 3.5 months — in fact, on the site of a swamp. Now in place of the swamp — a reason for pride.
The swamp is our everything. The Polistovskaya bog system (located in the central part of the region), according to experts, is the largest in Europe. But to make a swamp in a poor region as a brand is probably too much.
The story is another matter, it is much more pleasant to be proud of it, and the further the story goes, the more mythical the character, the better: there you can embellish much more than about the Seven Years War (well, that is, the Northern War. Or vice versa). The deeper one delves into history, the greater the understanding that we can be proud only of the past.
The Pskov region is pursued by the law of paired monuments.
We already have two monuments to Princess Olga. Now there are two monuments to Prince Alexander Nevsky and his squad. In Pskov, there are two monuments to Lenin at the beginning and end of one Lenin street.
One of the authors of the idea of the memorial was, of course (well, in our Pskov region this is «of course»), Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov Tikhon Shevkunov. After becoming the ruler of Pskov, Tikhon formed his own «factory of meanings» in the region. Either the concept of «renovation» of Pechora, the park «Russia is my history» (according to the rules, they appear only in cities with a population of one million), then the global restoration of the shrines of the Pskov region, then the «monument to the grandmother who saved the Church» — and so on.