Patriarchal Literary Prize. Paradise farms and other stories

The prize winners were writers Viktor Likhonosov, Boris Sporov and Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov.

The ceremony for electing the winners by secret ballot took place in the hall of church councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow with the participation of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus', who, according to tradition, personally presents the awards to the writers, TASS reports.

Total in short list There were eight nominees for the 2017 award. In addition to the winners, these are Irina Bogdanova, Dmitry Volodikhin, Vladimir Dvortsov, Hieromonk Roman (Matyushin) and Alexander Tkachenko.

Reflections of the Patriarch on Russian literature

The Patriarch expressed concern that the development of literature big influence are the laws of the market. “Many publishers simply refuse to publish works, citing the laws of the market, which require something that will sell successfully and make a profit. It’s a sad trend to make money from literature,” Patriarch Kirill complained.
He expressed the hope that the Patriarchal literary prize will serve as “a device, albeit quite modest, but, God willing, at the same time sufficiently effective, helping not only specialists to distinguish talented people, but also for the mass reader through this award to get acquainted with the work of his wonderful contemporaries.”

About the 2017 winners

Prize and laureates

The first laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize in 2011 was the writer Vladimir Krupin. In the second award season (2012), the winners were Olesya Nikolaeva and Viktor Nikolaev. In the third premium season, the awards were awarded to Alexey Varlamov, Yuri Loshchits and Stanislav Kunyaev, in the fourth - Nikolai Agafonov, Valentin Kurbatov and Valery Ganichev, in the fifth - Yuri Bondarev, Alexander Segen and Yuri Kublanovsky, in

In 2017, the Patriarchal Prize for Literature was awarded to authors from different creative destiny And life experience. But, according to Metropolitan Kliment of Kaluga and Borovsk, they are all united by God-given love for man and love for our Motherland with its difficult and great history" Today we offer small selection books of this year's prize winners.

Good Old Man: Stories about the help of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker

By the famous writer B.F. Sporov, St. Nicholas the Wonderworker appears before readers as a kind Old Man, who appears to everyone “differently, and is dressed differently so that he is not recognized” and helps those who with faith ask for help. Stories about St. Nicholas teach kindness towards people, mercy, repentance, but most importantly, they teach us sincere faith in the Lord and show that a miracle is near, you just need to believe... The book is intended for children and family reading.

Spring dream. Stories

"Spring Dream" - new collection stories by the author beloved by Orthodox readers, Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov. The book includes both old stories and more than a dozen new ones - written quite recently or, conversely, a very long time ago and never published.

The book is supplemented by several interviews with the priest, who different years published in the Family Orthodox Newspaper. In them, Father Yaroslav answers questions about faith, his life, interesting meetings and discoveries.

Unwritten memories. Our little Paris

A novel by a talented Soviet writer V.I. Likhonosov covers a huge layer of life in Kuban - from the beginning of the 20th century to the present day.

The main character of this amazing, capacious lyric-epic narrative is Memory. Memory is like the eternity and continuity of a person, like the constant movement of spirituality from generation to generation.

bitter aspen

Not just a story, but a reflection sharp mind on the most pressing topics for every person. The author skillfully interweaves social and spiritual themes in his works: the heroes think about man in general, about death, eternity, they strive to unravel the mystery of existence, to understand what it is family happiness What is more important, career, success or children, loved ones.

Paradise farms and other stories

Included are stories by priest Yaroslav Shipov, a member of the Russian Writers' Union. Most of the stories are based on personal pastoral experience. The stories are imbued with deep compassion for difficult life ordinary people. A number of works are published for the first time

Autumn in Taman

This publication is a collection of stories and stories famous writer Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov.

Road to Heaven. Poetry and prose of laureates and nominees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize. 2016-2017/Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov, Hieromonk Roman (Matyushin-Pravdin), Irina Bogdanova, Dmitry Volodikhin, etc. - M.: Lepta Book, Veche, Grif, 2017. - 400 p.

Short review works of laureates and nominees

Seven years have passed since then memorable day, in which the Russian Orthodox Church announced its literary centrism - that is, direct and immediate participation in poetic and literary life. The establishment of the Patriarchal Literary Prize prompted many writers to compare their works with a different view of them, asking themselves in this regard perhaps the most intimate questions - who am I, what am I, what word do I bring to people?

Thereby literary process the vertical coordinate was also given, which was what he had been missing for so long.

The choice of the Prize still does not raise any puzzling questions.

The names of Vladimir Krupin (2011), Olesya Nikolaeva (2012), Alexey Varlamov, Stanislav Kunyaev and Yuri Loshchits (2013), Valentin Kurbatov (2013), Yuri Bondarev, Yuri Kublanovsky and Alexander Segen (2015), Boris Ekimov and Boris Tarasov (2016) ) are known as widely as possible today: in in this case The award only confirms their services to Russian literature.

Who are they, despite the fact that their styles are sometimes extremely different from each other? A literary critic, apparently, would never even think of looking for the common roots of the poetics of Yuri Kublanovsky and Olesya Nikolaeva in anything other than the Gospel, they are refracted so differently in them biblical motifs. At the same time, one cannot say that one of them is a dry academic ascetic “on a short line”, and someone, on the contrary, splashes with baroque Rabelaisianism: each is a waterfall, distinguished by its echo.

Volume three of the works of the laureates and nominees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize included a fragment of the story by priest Nikolai Blokhin “Transfer on the Stone” - the prose is moralizing and targeted, rather teenage, if it has examples of some Soviet children's writers who explained to the young citizen the meaning of Christian concepts. The famous literary critic and thinker Boris Tarasov is also given a fragment from the work “God, Man and History. Russia, Europe and the Revolution,” in which he argues with the understanding of Tyutchev’s insights among modern researchers, explaining them still often hidden meaning. Three truly magnificent Don stories by the most subtle Boris Ekimov complete the 2016 section.

The year 2017 brought the Prize names, perhaps not so widely known, but from the same cohort of those who think about Christ.

From a short story Irina Bogdanova’s book about a soldier and a policeman’s girl-sister (prologue to the book “Porcelain Memory”), it is clear that the author “comes from” children’s prose, but the motifs of a person’s spiritual growth in war, introduced in Soviet literature the unforgettable Vasil Bykov.

Much more original (“more modern”) are the stylizations of northern tales (“Stories about Russian Antiquity”) by Dmitry Volodikhin: lexically and rhythmically they seem to really be from the survivors handwritten books, found in distant Arkhangelsk villages, chests forged at the corners with heavy copper strips, on which, in ligature, are written “before the deadline.” Love for the ancient style, however, does not obscure the novelistic plots related to the age-old Russian dream - about what? Buyan Island, immortality of the soul, a date with the Creator? Such stylization is above itself, since it is driven by a sighted love for the parable and existential tradition, fantasy in reality, sprouting from the very fatherland.

Vasily Dvortsov demonstrates a strong, unmistakable school: firstly (unexpected reversal), the Soviet criminal, love and, ultimately, life drama is conveyed through the mouth of a monk (“ Swan Lake"), and the narrator is no longer personified - the case miraculous salvation from night robbery (“Children’s Prayer”) and the introduction to the Faith of a lonely woman spiritually robbed by Soviet reality (“Beggars”).

Even before Viktor Likhonosov’s essays are imbued with nostalgia for pre-revolutionary Russian existence, you realize: the choice of the Patriarchal Prize is based not on the author’s proximity to “church circles,” but on the strength of stylistics, indicating that each creator of texts walked the roads of his people, without feeling any right to on formal refinements to the detriment of content. So, the laureates and nominees are clear. Anyone who knows how to do so can read them.

Returning to Likhonosov, you are surprised at the dating of the given essays about Prince Oleg Konstantinovich and the pilgrimage to the Holy Land - 1994, 1995 - but it seems that they were written only the day before yesterday. A cynic would hiss derogatorily about them - “the dreams of a monarchist,” but what do cynics know about epiphany in the midst of the smoking ideological ruins of Sovietism? Viktor Likhonosov’s language, lamenting, sad and bright, best speaks about the escape he experienced from the hastily Western and naturally entangled ideology of the “proletarian revolution” on Russian soil and the exterminations that followed “for the good.”

Leaving the impression of artlessness, the poems of Hieromonk Roman (Matyushin-Pravdin) represent the diary of a minister of the Church, a resident of the monastery - about nature, God’s commandments and their understanding, and can be perceived completely as official, that is, applied to what can be called personal and often addressed to oneself through a teacher’s understanding of the gospel heritage. In essence, this is real Russian poetry, not distorted by the “glow of five-year plans” and other inclusions of a distant time: pictures of nature, reflections on books. Clean, bright: “God loves us - what else?”

The moralizing tradition is also extended by the explanatory theology of Alexander Tkachenko: in his answers to the questions of believers, he is not only canonically argued, but is able to revive and “ground” high Orthodox maxims, considering them in the context of living modern life.

The stories of the acting priest Yaroslav Shipov - quite in the spirit of Turgenev’s “Notes of a Hunter” (which is hinted at by some wandering plots to the reader) are replete with subtexts, outlining the contours of Heaven (spiritual perfection) on earth. Brief, they are precise and attract with the smiling intonation behind them. A book of such stories can lift the spirits of hundreds of thousands of sad people.

Boris Sporov paints a mysterious and enlightening picture in the story “Two from the Last Century”: to a young man from an ordinary Soviet family suddenly the essence of his father, a nuclear physicist, is revealed, best friend who has been a provincial theologian since his imprisonment. Based on the first chapter presented in the collection, it is impossible to imagine what will happen next, but the conversation may turn to how to come to the truth “here and now.”

To summarize the third volume, we should see the following: in the 2010s. the literature of tradition is represented, so to speak, by “younger villagers” - that is, by writers, regardless of place permanent residence, striving to revive not the metropolis, which has exhausted itself in small “services,” but the spirit of the entire earth.

The “junior villagers” complete with their labors the work begun by the “senior villagers” - the first who began to pay attention to the incompatibility of Soviet urbanization guidelines for a wide folk life. This completes the transition from the Soviet social-industrial epic to the post-Soviet epic: it is not in the abstract that “Orthodoxy triumphs,” but the Lord returns and re-settles in places long abandoned, and, above all, in people yearning for the restored vertical, the high meaning of life.

One can only wish this poetry, prose, and essays a long life in posterity, their unfading memory, and for the new seasons of the Patriarchs - unflagging spiritual vigilance in the selection of true devotees of Russian literature.

Sergey Arutyunov

May 11, 2017 in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' led the seventh ceremony of electing and awarding laureates of the Patriarchal Literary Prize named after Saints Cyril and Methodius.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church: manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate; Chairman of the Russian Orthodox Church; first vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' for Moscow; ; viceroy; Chairman of the Publishing Council; ; Deputy Chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate; Chief Editor; Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate; employees of the Publishing Council, the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate and other synodal institutions, clergy and monastics.

The event was also attended by members of the House of Trustees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize, Russian literary scholars, journalists, representatives of government and public organizations, cultural figures.

Applications for the Patriarchal Literary Prize are accepted on September 14, 2016. During the seventh award season, 50 applications were received from various regions of Russia, as well as from Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Latvia. March 28 this year at a meeting of the House of Trustees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize, a short list of nominees for 2017, which included:

• Irina Anatolyevna Bogdanova;
• Dmitry Mikhailovich Volodikhin;
• Vasily Vladimirovich Dvortsov;
• Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov;
• Boris Fedorovich Sporov;
• Alexander Borisovich Tkachenko;
• Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov.

• Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsovsky Pavel, Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Belarusian Exarchate;
• Yu.M. Loschits, writer, publicist and literary critic, laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize;
• K.P. Kovalev-Sluchevsky, professor at the Institute of Journalism and literary creativity, writer.

Then the election of the laureates of the Patriarchal Literary Prize took place: members of the House of Trustees filled out voting ballots. The ballots were transferred to the Counting Commission. Members of the Counting Commission counted the votes, filled out the protocol and handed it over to His Holiness the Patriarch.

His Holiness the Patriarch presented the laureates with a diploma and badges of the Patriarchal Literary Prize.

All the 2017 award nominees were also invited to the stage - I.A. Bogdanova, D.M. Volodikhin, V.V. Dvortsov, A.B. Tkachenko, to whom the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church presented honorary diplomas.

A choir took part in the musical accompaniment of the ceremony. orphanage“Otrada” at the Nikolsky Chernoostrovsky Monastery in the city of Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga region.

At the end of the evening there was a concert.

The Patriarchal Literary Prize was established by the Holy Synod on December 25, 2009 () with the aim of encouraging writers who have made a significant contribution to the establishment of spiritual and moral values ​​in the life of modern man, family and society, who have created highly artistic works that have enriched Russian literature. This prize has no analogues in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Local Orthodox Churches.

The first laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize in 2011 was the writer Vladimir Krupin. In the second award season (2012), the winners were Olesya Nikolaeva and Viktor Nikolaev. In 2013, Alexey Varlamov, Yuri Loshchits and Stanislav Kunyaev received awards. In the fourth award season (2014) the winners

On May 11, 2017, in the Hall of Church Councils of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' led the seventh ceremony of electing and awarding laureates of the Patriarchal Literary Prize named after Saints Equal-to-the-Apostles Cyril and Methodius.

The ceremony was attended by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church: Metropolitan Barsanuphius of St. Petersburg and Ladoga, manager of the affairs of the Moscow Patriarchate; Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk; the first vicar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' for Moscow, Metropolitan Arseny of Istra; Metropolitan Longin of Saratov and Volsk; the abbot of the St. Andrew's Stavropegic Monastery, Bishop Theophylact of Dmitrov; Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Belarusian Exarchate, Bishop Pavel of Molodechno and Stolbtsovsky; Bishop Nikodim of Edinet and Brichany; Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Nikolai Balashov; editor-in-chief of the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vladimir Silovyov; Deputy Administrator of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archimandrite Savva (Tutunov); employees of the Publishing Council, the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchate and other synodal institutions, clergy and monastics.
The event was also attended by members of the House of Trustees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize, Russian literary scholars, journalists, representatives of government and public organizations, and cultural figures.
The Soyuz TV channel broadcast live from the Hall of Church Councils.
The ceremony began with a screening of the film, dedicated to history Patriarchal Literary Prize.
His Holiness Patriarch Kirill addressed those gathered with the Primate's word.
The acceptance of applications for the Patriarchal Literary Prize began on September 14, 2016. During the seventh award season, 50 applications were received from various regions of Russia, as well as from Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Latvia. March 28 this year At a meeting of the House of Trustees of the Patriarchal Literary Prize, a short list of nominees for 2017 was approved, which included:
Irina Anatolyevna Bogdanova;
Dmitry Mikhailovich Volodikhin;
Vasily Vladimirovich Dvortsov;
Viktor Ivanovich Likhonosov;
Boris Fedorovich Sporov;
Alexander Borisovich Tkachenko;
Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov.
The names of the laureates are determined by secret ballot. To count the votes, a Counting Commission was formed from among the members of the House of Trustees with the following composition:
Bishop of Molodechno and Stolbtsovsky Pavel, Chairman of the Publishing Council of the Belarusian Exarchate;
Yu.M. Loschits, writer, publicist and literary critic, laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize;
K.P. Kovalev-Sluchevsky, professor at the Institute of Journalism and Literary Creativity, writer.
Then the election of laureates of the Patriarchal Literary Prize took place: members of the House of Trustees filled out voting ballots. The ballots were transferred to the Counting Commission. Members of the Counting Commission counted the votes, filled out the protocol and handed it over to His Holiness the Patriarch.
During the voting and counting of votes, a film about the nominees for the 2017 Patriarchal Literary Prize was shown.
Then the results of the secret ballot were announced, according to the results of which V.I. Likhonosov, B.F. Sporov and Archpriest Yaroslav Shipov.
His Holiness the Patriarch presented the laureates with a diploma and badges of the Patriarchal Literary Prize.
All the 2017 award nominees were also invited to the stage - I.A. Bogdanova, D.M. Volodikhin, V.V. Dvortsov, A.B. Tkachenko, to whom the Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church presented honorary diplomas.
The choir of the Otrada orphanage at the Nikolsky Chernoostrovsky Monastery in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region, took part in the musical accompaniment of the ceremony.
At the end of the evening there was a concert.

The Patriarchal Literary Prize was established by the Holy Synod at a meeting on December 25, 2009 (magazine No. 115) with the aim of encouraging writers who have made a significant contribution to the establishment of spiritual and moral values ​​in the life of modern man, family and society, who have created highly artistic works that have enriched Russian literature. This prize has no analogues in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Local Orthodox Churches.
The first laureate of the Patriarchal Literary Prize in 2011 was the writer Vladimir Krupin. In the second award season (2012), the winners were Olesya Nikolaeva and Viktor Nikolaev. In 2013, the awards were awarded to Alexey Varlamov, Yuri Loshchits and Stanislav Kunyaev. In the fourth award season (2014), the winners were Archpriest Nikolai Agafonov, Valentin Kurbatov and Valery Ganichev. In 2015, the prize was awarded to Yuri Bondarev, Yuri Kublanovsky and Alexander Segen, in 2016 - to Boris Ekimov, Boris Tarasov and priest Nikolai Blokhin.