Victims of the 1917 Revolution and Civil War commemorated in Moscow

The Office for the Dead was conducted on 4 November 2009, the Day of the People’s Unity, to commemorate the victims of the 1917 Revolution and Civil War. Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate department for church-society relations, officiated.

Among the congregation at the Church of Our Lady the Sign were Russia’s Ombudsman V. Lukin, members of the Imperial Family, the Council of Russian Compatriots leaders and participants in the Orthodox Russia exhibition-forum on Towards the Day of the People’s Unity, the exhibition press center reported.

‘We can and must be united by the memory of those who suffered for the Motherland. Our gratitude to them should be always beyond all the disputes and differences’, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin said before the service.

DECR Communication Service