May be this faith is derived from the believe in the divinity of the Russian King.
Or derived from the believe that Russian King has a right to ‘‘command’’ to ‘‘order’’ like a God in heaven.
I have read some where that when there was a question of leaving the throne , the Russian people kneeled down in front of the King - John the Fourth ( Ivan Fourth ) and were begging him to continue to be the King , and not to make them ‘‘orphans’’
Actually the same feelings in the hearts of the people were when Stalin died and people were crying and were staying till the evening on the streets and were feeling like a ‘‘lost ones’’.
That is , why I think that , may be this title as a ‘‘Saint’’ , is derived from this faith in ''the divinity of ruling elite ‘’, the ''divinity of the king ‘’.
I do not know
I am citizen of Ukraine
I do not have University education , and I am not expert in religion or history , I just read some books.
And what I think is that the attention that Russia uses to pay for its KINGS is very very high and respectful.
Even , when we read some of the Russian writers , we read the verses ‘’ OUR EARTHLY GOD… or ‘’ INSTEAD OF LAW , THERE IS A PILLAR AND ON THE PILLAR IS THE CROWN’’… ( probably - Pushkin or Lermontov… )
i think that , there is a believe , or its even a kind of religious believe , kind of - ISLAM , but not -Islam towards the religion , but Islam towards the KING , towards the ruling elite , the government.
Its a believe in the ''sainthood ‘’ and ''holiness ‘’ of government … of holiness of a King.
I do not know , for example , - Some historiographers , today try to make the ‘‘glorification of NKVD ‘’ heroes…
Some historians call them ‘’ one of the the biggest criminals in the history ‘’ and other historians call them ‘’ great heroes’’ .
Even call them ‘’ the best’’ or ‘‘one of the best Russians’’ in the history.
I am Ukrainian , so I can see the damage which those despots did to us.
Ukrainians are not lazy people , so for us ‘’ serfdom’’ was not a good system.
Ukrainias are tillers of the ground , hard working , prosperous peasants , so we look at ‘‘poverty’’ as a disgusting thing , that’s why the ‘’ bolshevism ‘’ was not a system which was for our people.
Because our hard-working pesant abhours the culture of poverty , becuase of our energy of tiller of the ground.
The private ownership i in our menthality is in our consciousness.
So , how for example , I can praise the ruler , who brought the ‘‘serfdom’’ or ‘‘bolshevism’’ to my nation. And made so much damage , during so many years , to the nation by those systems.
For example ,
15 millions Ukrainians died in Holodomor ( its like before it was the population of Canada )
15 millions of Ukrainians . And after all that damage , we hear that those dictators and tyrans , who used to be more destructive than any other dictators , are called o be ‘’ the heroes ‘’ and ‘’ the best Russians ‘’ .
(It seems that we live in a ''new ussr ‘’ , if historiography calls them heroes, and praise their acts. )
Archibishop Benjamin , in his speach in Paris , at 1945 , called the Soviet government as the one which is put by God , and that a blessing will come to those who will support the Soviet governmet.
In Europe , the government was never higher than the Church , there were even the times when the Church was higher than the governmetn (Catholic , Calvinist )
Yes , I think that , there should be the respect to the Kings , no matter of their life .
But , in my opinion , the ''glorification ‘’ and ‘‘divinity’’ towards the Kings , in th terms of the ''titles of Saints ‘’ , it God who decides .
( I am sorry , I am converted Evangelical Christian , so I have my way of thinking . )
and also , may be it has some reflection towards ''Sainthood ‘’
For example , I do not agree with ‘’ authoritarian rulership ‘’ , I do not believe in Asian ‘‘pyramidical’’ model of rulership .
I believe that todays kings , presidents , governments , should be ‘‘controlled’’ by the people , should be judged ‘’ by the critical way of thinking , according to what they do for the people , and how they rule.
I am against the idea of despotic authoritarian KING-SAINT , which is the saint , just because he was the King of Great Empire.
May be this believe is taken, just from Russian menthality.
I believe that people , deserve the equal justice in this world and in another world ,
people deserve to be respected , not as a mass or cattle , but as a human unts , as a personalities ,
respected socio-economicly , politicly with their freedom and rights.
God , knows better who deserve to be called a ‘‘Saint’’
and if we honour the personality and give to this personality ‘’ too much functions , and abilities ‘’ , than we might decieve ourselves.
I would like to hear more thoughts about Czar Nicholas II
For example , I just read in wikipedia that -
‘’ Nicholas II ruled from 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917. His reign saw Imperial Russia go from being one of the foremost great powers of the world to an economic and military disaster. Critics nicknamed him Bloody Nicholas because of the Khodynka Tragedy, Bloody Sunday, and the anti-Semitic pogroms that occurred during his reign. Under his rule, Russia was defeated in the Russo–Japanese War. As head of state, he approved the Russian mobilization of August 1914, which marked the first fatal step into World War I and thus into the demise of the Romanov dynasty less than four years later.’’
I know , that wikipedia’s information is also debatable , but what do we think about these argumentations ?
