The brother of Alexei Batalov revealed the details of the actor's personal life. Archpriest Mikhail Ardov vs Deacon Andrey Kuraev Different faces

My first conscious memory of him is from the time of the war. We (and we were three brothers) were evacuated with my mother in the city of Bugulma. And in the forty-second or forty-three year our father came there, he served in one of the army newspapers.

And then I remember this scene. We - father, Alexei and I - are standing in the courtyard of the house where we lived. The father is in the uniform of a major, he holds a pistol in his hand and shoots towards the woodpile. And after each shot, Alexei and I run up to the firewood and look for traces of bullets ...

The next memory refers to the summer of the forty-fifth year. Our family then rented a dacha in Valentinovka near Moscow. And Alexander Vertinsky lived in one of the nearest houses with his wife and daughters, and he sometimes sang for his neighbors. And so Alexei, who was in his seventeenth year, skillfully imitated Vertinsky's singing.

My father in those years was somewhat concerned about the future fate of his stepson. Watching how he longs to become an artist, Viktor Ardov feared that he would become a typical member of the acting tribe. But the fears were not justified, Batalov never belonged to theatrical bohemia.

Stepfather called young Alexei " National artist our apartment". And in 1969, on the day when he was awarded the title of people, Ardov said:

Here you have the "people of our apartment" ...

Alexei was an unusually gifted person. He drew beautifully and painted with oil paints. The large portrait of Akhmatova he created was the decoration of our apartment. He composed poetry, and Akhmatova approved of this. I remember she quoted his lines: "The sea always butts the rocks / / With a white forehead of a blue wave ..."

We can say that his professional career was quite successful, he was in demand, glorified and rewarded. But in a country like ours, things could be different.

In an afterword to one of my books, Batalov wrote: “To the modern reader, our life on Bolshaya Ordynka may seem quite carefree. But this is only at a superficial glance.

In the book of Roman Timenchik "Anna Akhmatova in the 1960s" published memo Minister of State Security V. S. Abakumov, this text is called "On the need to arrest the poetess Akhmatova" (sent to Stalin on July 14, 1950).

There we are talking about the fact that she "carried out enemy work against Soviet state"," grouped hostile literary workers around herself and organized anti-Soviet gatherings "... And the last phrase is this:" The MGB (Ministry of State Security. - Approx. Ed.) The USSR considers it necessary to arrest Akhmatova. I ask for your permission."

Imagine for a moment that Stalin agreed with the opinion of his minister. Not only Akhmatova, but also my mother and my stepfather would have gone to the Gulag... In the summer of 1950, I graduated from the Studio School and was admitted to the Art Theater... There is no doubt that I would have been arrested.

But now, in my declining years, I feel neither malice nor hatred. I can repeat after Pushkin the words that greatest poet wrote four months before his tragic death(letter to P. Chaadaev):
"... I swear on my honor, for nothing in the world I would not want to change my fatherland or have a different history, except for the history of our ancestors, such as God gave it to us."

We continue to cite some materials of clerics from the "wrong" Orthodoxy. To increase the understanding of why they deviated into a split and what they are talking about. Replica of Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov (Archpriest, Rector of the Moscow Church of the Holy Royal Martyrs and New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery, Dean of the Moscow Deanery of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, ROAC).
The ROAC is notable for the fact that, without the help of the state, it was restored from ruins and professionally restored in Russia a large number of historical temple. Which subsequently were cynically selected from the ROAC in favor of the ROC MP. Like other religious property, relics, etc.

Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov (born October 21, 1937, Moscow, USSR) is a Russian writer, publicist and memoirist; cleric of the non-canonical Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, archpriest; pastor of the Moscow church of St. Royal Martyrs and New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery, Dean of the Moscow Deanery of the ROAC; until 1993 he was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, served in the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses.
The son of the writer Viktor Ardov ( real name Zigberman) and actress Nina Olshevskaya, brother of Boris Ardov and half-brother of Alexei Batalov. In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He was a professional writer.
In 1964 he was baptized. Since 1967, he has been a subdeacon in the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka. In 1980, in Palm Sunday, was ordained a deacon in Yaroslavl in the church in the name of St. Innokenty, Metropolitan of Moscow. On Easter 1980 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan John (Wendland); served in rural parishes of the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses.
In the summer of 1993, he left the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and moved to the Russian Church Abroad, becoming a clergyman of the Suzdal diocese headed by Valentin (Rusantsov). Together with Valentin (Rusantsov), he went into schism, and since 1995 he has been a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Free Church, administratively and canonically independent of ROCOR (in 1998 it was renamed the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church).

Rector of the Church of the New Martyrs of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery in Moscow (ROAC) Archpriest MIKHAIL ARDOV: “The initiators of the “unification” of ROCOR with the Patriarchate were simply waiting for the death of three bishops…” Interviewed by Vladimir Oivin to Portal-Credo.Ru on May 17, 2017.

“Portal-Credo.Ru": It has been 10 years since the Moscow Patriarchate took over a significant part of the Russian Church Abroad. How do you personally and your Church perceive this event?

Archpriest Mikhail Ardov: The fact that the bishops of our Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, under the leadership of not just anyone, but the great hierarch Bishop Gregory (Grabbe), have departed from the Church Abroad is a remarkable event. Therefore, when they say "shards of the Church Abroad", then our jurisdiction does not apply to them: the ROAC is not a "splinter" at all. According to the testament of the holy Patriarch Tikhon, our bishops, headed by a senior in consecration, formed their jurisdiction over Russian land. And I know that none of our conscientious priests, not to mention the bishops, have ever regretted it.. It was the right timely decision, because it was clear where the Synod Abroad was heading.

My theory is this. The initiators of the "unification" of ROCOR with the Patriarchate simply waited for the death of three bishops who bore the same name - Anthony of Geneva, Anthony of Los Angeles and Anthony of San Francisco. They would never agree to amalgamation. But as soon as they died, they immediately threw Metropolitan Vitaly into the trash, who was not seven spans in his forehead and began his reign by removing Vladyka Gregory (Grabbe) to rest, and removing his son from the Holy Land on false charges. Then everything went like clockwork.

To our bishops, especially to Bishop Gregory (Grabbe), this was already clear then. Vladyka's son-in-law, my late friend Fr. Vladimir Shishkov recalled such a scene. In their house in New Jersey, Vladyka Gregory was sitting in his usual place in an armchair and suddenly uttered the following phrase: “Well, that’s it, I put an end to the Synod Abroad.”

- And what has changed in church life over these 10 years?

Well, a lot... We went through persecution in the first place. They took away the restored churches from our Metropolitan Valentine, poured mud on us, tried to judge, took away the relics. But still we exist and God willing, the Lord will bear with us.

- So, the era of persecution is over?

It seems to me that, having taken away everything they can, in Suzdal and elsewhere, the patriarchate is almost paying no attention to us. They have other problems: Ukraine, Saint Isaac's Cathedral and so on.
Our country still lives according to the Leninist law, which declares all ancient buildings, including churches, the property of the state.

Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov(October 21, 1937, Moscow) - Russian writer, publicist and memoirist; cleric of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, archpriest; pastor of the Moscow church of St. Royal Martyrs and New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery, Dean of the Moscow Deanery of the ROAC; until 1993 he was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, served in the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses.

The writer's son Victor Ardova and actress Nina Olshevskaya, brother Boris Ardov and half brother Alexey Batalov. In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. Mikhail Ardov was a professional writer. In 1964 he was baptized. Since 1967, a subdeacon in the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka. In 1980, on Palm Sunday, he was ordained a deacon in Yaroslavl in the church in the name of St. Innokenty, Metropolitan of Moscow. On Easter 1980 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan John (Wendland); served in rural parishes of the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses.

Summer 1993 Mikhail Ardov left the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and moved to the Russian Church Abroad, becoming a clergyman of the Suzdal diocese, headed by Valentin (Rusantsov). Since 1995 Mikhail Ardov- Cleric of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, administratively and canonically independent of ROCOR.

In September 2006 Mikhail Ardov provoked criticism of the ROAC by Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman of the DECR, in live the Friday program of the Author's Television (ATV) "New Time"; the incident was covered in some media.

Books by Mikhail Ardov

“Little things archi.., proto… and just priestly life” (M., 1995)
"Around Ordynka" (St. Petersburg, 2000)
"Legendary Ordynka. Portraits”, (M., 2001).
Monograph about the graphomaniac. Memories, 2004
Everything is for the better ... M .: B. S. G. - Press, 2006. 800 p.

great soul. Memories of Dmitri Shostakovich. M.: B. S. G. - Press, 2008. 270 p.

About the new book by Mikhail Ardov "Everything is for the best"
I am one of those readers who greedily pounce on any text relating to the poetry and personality of Anna Akhmatova. It is for this reason that I buy all the books that have the name of Mikhail Ardov on the cover. Suddenly, he remembered something else. The first magazine publication - "Legendary Ordynka" - appeared back in 1994, then there were "Return to Ordynka" and "Around Ordynka". The memoirs were successful and soon came out as separate books under the same titles. The very word "Ordynka" has become a kind of password. Since Ordynka, then Ardov, then Akhmatova ...
And now 2007 is in the yard, and - a new, recently published book (M., "B.S.G.-Press", 4 thousand copies). This time, the title did without Ordynka, instead of it on the cover - a line from Akhmatova - "Everything is for the better ..." (the poem itself "There are three eras for memories ..." opens the book as an epigraph).
The name, despite being Akhmatov's, seems unfortunate. And because it resembles Kabakov's "Everything is fixable", and because it does not correspond at all, but rather even contradicts the content. However, this is not important, because the main thing on the cover is not the name (you won’t notice it right away), but the names put on it: Akhmatova, Pasternak, Zoshchenko, Lev Gumilyov, Olesha, Ilf, Petrov, Chukovsky, Mandelstam, Arseniy Tarkovsky, Brodsky ... - more than twenty in total, small, in a column. And - large: ARDOV.
This time, the author is not just a witness and an eyewitness, but he himself comes out of the shadow of his great contemporaries, becoming, in fact, the main character of his book. And although it was written, like all the previous ones, in fragments (largely repeating those published earlier), now these fragments have a connecting thread. This is the chronology of the life of Mikhail Ardov himself, who was destined to be born into an intelligent Moscow family, from childhood to know the most prominent people of the era, easily, in a family way to communicate with them, and then, at a mature age, drastically change his lifestyle, refusing to study. journalism and bohemian companies, be baptized, go to church and become an Orthodox priest.

Fate itself is unusual, even strange. And if M. Ardov did not write a novel based on this fate, then, probably, because there were too many real great names in it, and this requires, whatever you say, a documentary presentation. On the other hand, the very nature of his literary talent, inherited from his father, the famous satirist Viktor Ardov, is such that it is best realized in the genre of short prose - short stories, tales, anecdotes.

Reading short, fragmented prose is easy and fun. You can start from anywhere (although in this case it is better to read everything in a row). True, the fragments are typed as much as 800 pages, which by the end is somewhat tiring. The memoir part is divided into five large chapters - by decades, from the forties to the nineties. At first (50s - 60s) the narrative unfolds against the backdrop of literary life, then (70s - 90s) - against the backdrop of church life. Ardov also already had a book about this - “Little things archi ..., proto ... and simply priestly life”, so that there were some repetitions here.
In a good way, the text should have been divided into two volumes: one about Ordynka, the other about the church. On one cover, Ardov is young and bohemian, on the other, in a beard and cassock. And an indication of his spiritual title - archpriest - would be appropriate only on that second cover, because exactly half of the text (about Akhmatova and others) has nothing to do with his archpriestship. But then such a big, solid, one might say, “anniversary” book would not have turned out (this year the author turns 70 years old) ...
In addition to memoirs, it includes two dozen more early stories by M. Ardov, which, apparently, have not been published anywhere before. The stories are short and also have a real basis, they are, in fact, a record of conversations, stories about yourself ordinary people, men and women, old men and women, parishioners of small rural parishes, in which he began his church service author. Pretty nice everyday sketches, which, however, after reading a large array of memoir sketches, are already perceived with difficulty, as something redundant. (Maybe it was worth putting them at the beginning of the book? But I'm afraid that in this case the reader would have got into the memoirs earlier, they are certainly more attractive.)
There is also a third section of the book, called "APPENDIX" by the author himself. For some reason, it contains: the text of the resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks on the magazines Zvezda and Leningrad, excerpts from Zhdanov’s report on the same subject, his own M. Ardov's correspondence with the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church, the full text of his articles in Nezavisimaya Gazeta with a rebuke to A. Naiman for his novel B.B. and etc." and even ... a selection of quotes from the most different publications about the scandal at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2003, when the prototype of the hero of the above-mentioned novel publicly slapped A. Nyman in the face. Thus, this whole large (I repeat: 800 pages) and variegated book ends ... with a quote from the gossip column, signed by some Dear Cousin.
If I were the editor, I would cut out this "Appendix" altogether, but, apparently, that was the will of the author.

As already mentioned, reading short stories and stories by M. Ardov is easy and entertaining, especially when you love their characters. Even if you already know all this (read both from Ardov himself and from other memoirists), and the author does not report anything fundamentally new about the great contemporaries, it is still interesting to read. Moreover, in addition to the “great ones”, there are many other names and characters in the book. M. Ardov writes with love about Professor A.G. Gabrichevsky and his wife, artist N.A. Severtsova, about Archbishop Cyprian, about the psalmist Alexandra Shaganova (Shurka), about her friends - children and grandchildren famous parents- Maxim Shostakovich, Evgenia Chukovsky, Alexander Nilin ...
The book contains many verses. Well-known are quoted (on occasion), but there are also little-known, as they say, "home" poems, impromptu and epigrams belonging to various poets - from Mayakovsky to Brodsky. And also all kinds of poetic jokes and tricks of Ardov himself and his friends, like this paraphrase from Akhmatova herself:

I won't drink wine with you
Because you are a boy and...

It is interesting to compare the "Akhmatov" memoirs of M. Ardov with the memoirs of other witnesses and eyewitnesses, such as L. Chukovskaya, N. Mandelstam, E. Gershtein or the same A. Naiman. Ardov himself often turns to them, sometimes to confirm his words, sometimes to correct or even refute them. Here's just one, but characteristic example. The phrase Akhmatova said during the trial of Brodsky is widely known:
- What a biography they make for our redhead!
But in Ardov it sounds different:
– He (Joseph) seemed to have hired someone to do a classic biography of him.
There is a semantic difference. Yes, and stylistically something is not right: Akhmatova expressed herself succinctly, aphoristically, and here - some kind of clumsy, unlike Akhmatova's phrase.
Of course, the author considers his own interpretation to be the most accurate and flawless. How! All these "girlfriends", who subsequently wrote memoirs, only came to the house in which he lived! But the “girlfriends” were much closer to Akhmatova in age and fate, there was obviously more understanding and trust between them. And Misha Ardov was a boy for her, or, as she herself said, a "fish", the son of the owners of the apartment in which she had to live. Of course, we should all be grateful to the tenacious memory of this “little fish”, which preserved for us the samples of her lively speech, her humor, her judgments on various issues of “current life”. But due to his age and peculiarities of talent, Ardov Jr. grasped and memorized, first of all, the most amusing, funny, witty, therefore, in his portraits of Akhmatova, Lev Gumilyov, Pasternak and others, the tragic, deep that was in their lives is almost absent . Not that genre. For Ardov, the main thing is to complete any of his mini-plots, separated from each other by "asterisks", a spectacular joke, an anecdotal ending.
So, a rather dramatic plot related to the lawsuit about literary heritage Akhmatova (see, for example, the correspondence of L.K. Chukovskaya with V.M. Zhirmunsky in Znamya No. 1 for 2007), he reduces it to ridiculing V. Zhirmunsky’s unsuccessful statement at a meeting of the relevant commission (whose member there was M. Ardov himself), without touching the main thing - the fate of the Akhmatov archive.
Or another example: about N.K. Bruni Ardov writes with unexpected admiration: “... as soon as the memorial service began (according to Akhmatova. - S.Sh.), Nina Konstantinovna took a thin church candle from her bag and lit it. And then I realized that she great person(?!). According to L.K. Chukovskaya knows that Akhmatova “did not tolerate this lady (daughter of the poet K. Balmont), suspected of all mortal sins and did not let her on the threshold.”
OK. Chukovskaya knew Requiem by heart for many years and never let it slip. And what did young Misha Ardov do as soon as the text of this piece fell into his hands? Secretly from Akhmatova, he rewrote it and immediately took it to another (specifically, to a professor at Moscow State University Zapadov), who gave it to someone else, and off they went ... It’s good that times were already different, but he could really let down his adored Anna Andreevna. It would be better not to talk about such "exploits", but apparently I want to emphasize my superiority. Almost: the world learned "Requiem" thanks to Misha Ardov. Or: Akhmatova was buried in the church and buried where they were buried, because Mikhail Ardov found this place. (And in one of the interviews, he himself says something else: the funeral, they say, was organized by Lev Gumilyov). And is it necessary to boast of such merits - and to whom, the priest?
In general, this priesthood of the author all the time somehow interferes with reading, you keep it in your mind, and what you might not have paid attention to in another book, here you involuntarily check this circumstance. Is it appropriate for an archpriest to make accusations, express suspicions, or even direct insults? Like those that we read to N.Ya. Mandelstam (no matter how wrong she was, but why “bastard”?) Or to Natalya Ilyina, whom he directly calls a sex woman, although, as far as I understand, there is no direct evidence of this, or to the Punins - these, however, no one he doesn’t favor memoirists, but you, you, Orthodox priest!
The commentary to the public lecture by L.N. Gumilyov: "... all this is somehow lightweight, undignified, a sort of scientific Arkady Raikin, a virtuoso in the professorial department ...". It is free to comment “that way” when a person is no longer in the world!
By the way, I was surprised by the rather cold tone of the author when it comes to his relatives - his father, whom he often calls "Ardov", his mother - N.A. Olshevskaya (that's who was closest to Akhmatova in their family, but how little, and almost nothing is said about this), brothers. The eldest, maternal half-brother Alexei Batalov, People's Artist of the USSR, is mentioned several times, but absolutely nothing is said about him (although his name is on the cover), while the author emphasizes that he hates ... cinema and theater. About the younger brother, Boris Ardov, only that is said that he was born into the world. On the other hand, the author does not seem to miss a single joke of his own, not a single phrase he has ever said successfully (does he write them down, or what?). From the fragments that can be combined with the words “And then I joked ...”, it’s time to compile a separate book.

I don’t know if the author wanted it or didn’t, but from everything he tells about himself, the image of a person grows, of course, endowed with intelligence, talent, a great sense of humor, and ambitions (and how without them, when there are so many great people!), but who failed to realize these ambitions in the way he had dreamed of. The career of a journalist did not work out, he did not want to follow in the footsteps of his father and write sketches and feuilletons all his life.

Meanwhile, the great old men and women, among whom he grew up, one after another left for another world. In the late 60s and early 70s, thirty-year-old Mikhail Ardov was apparently at a crossroads of fate. And it is very likely (and he does not hide it) that his decision to go to the priesthood was dictated primarily by the search for some special, even original path. It is difficult to subtract anything about faith, about God in this book, but it says in plain text that going into religion meant in those years one of the forms of protest against Soviet power and Soviet reality.
It is curious how I. Brodsky reacted to the new look of Ardov when they met in 1995 in New York. Seeing an old friend in a cassock, he said:
What a masquerade!
Long before that, back in the mid-60s, in Moscow, answering the question of the newly converted Ardov whether he was thinking of being baptized, Brodsky said in English:
– I am Jew. (I am Jewish).
Surprisingly, Ardov also talks about his church life without changing either the genre (the same stories, anecdotes) or intonation (the same lightness, the same humor). I don't even know if that's good or bad. The priests in the book “Everything is for the better” drink a lot, swear with bad words, write denunciations against each other, sit up with the authorities - everything is like people do. But Ardov's claims to the Russian Orthodox Church (manifested already in the post-Soviet period) lie on a completely different plane and are very reminiscent of the democrats' claims to the CPSU - to repent of sin (in this case, the sin of cooperation with the authorities). And just as they left the party, so Ardov - again as a sign of protest, disagreement - left the wing of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 90s and joined the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (RZPTs). He began to travel abroad, to communicate with Orthodox ministers there, and wrote well about many of them in his book. Perhaps he himself would like to serve abroad, but he received a new parish (already under the auspices of the RZPTs) at the Golovinsky cemetery in Moscow. (“Stone barn” without electricity and heating, which was previously used as a “ritual hall” and in which it was necessary to build a kind of iconostasis from plywood.)
The Russian Church Abroad also did not justify the hopes of Archpriest Ardov. After all, now things are moving towards unification with the Russian Orthodox Church, and he, a staunch opponent of all ecumenism, regards this as a “fall” of the foreign church and zealously opposes it.
This is where it gets a little out of hand. From what you understand: Mikhail Ardov is already opposing himself to the entire Russian Orthodox Church, and, logically, his next step should be a new departure, but ... where? Catholicism, right? By the way, he writes, as if by the way, about Father Alexander Men: “... I have a suspicion that he secretly belonged to Catholic Church". (And he served, as we remember, in the Orthodox.)

Do not confuse me and Me!
Although we look like relatives,
But in Orthodoxy treason
Don't catch me!

Wow! I would like, of course, facts, and not "suspicions" and poems, especially since we are again talking about a person who is no longer alive.
It becomes uncomfortable from immersion in all these intra-church strife and revelations. Why is this for us, readers - believers and non-believers, weak believers, those who want to believe, those who want to join the church? I am not here raising the question of whether M. Ardov is right or wrong in essence. I can't know. I’m only saying that in such a book this polemic is hardly appropriate, but it turns out that by attracting the reader with the names dear to many Akhmatova, Pasternak, Zoshchenko and others, the author draws us into clarifying issues that most readers can’t judge can't and probably shouldn't.

Ardov himself has everything in a heap, everything is mixed up, and, having “sorted out” with the Russian Orthodox Church, he, without any transition, begins to “deal with” ... the writer A. Naiman (his old friend, and now, it seems, an enemy), descending from the heights of service God before digging into near-literary gossip.

So it seems that Savor Ardov is still closer than the church, and she beckons him, and attracts, and therefore he writes, and writes, and writes - memoirs, articles in newspapers, open letters of rebuke to guilty priests, writers ... The impression is that the main thing for him - write everything down, put everything down on paper, up to yesterday's successful pun, invented over a glass of cognac. Even a bad thought creeps in: is this not a kind of graphomania? (By the way, one of his first works was called “Monograph of a graphomaniac.”) In comparison with many who now write and publish, Ardov, of course, is not a graphomaniac. Still, God did not deprive of talent.
But here it is interesting: what would Anna Andreevna Akhmatova, whose “spiritual son” he considers himself, say after reading this book?

Ardov Mikhail Viktorovich
Place: birth: Moscow
Date of birth: 1937 20th century

Church affiliation
Russian Orthodox Church

1964 20th century -
1993 20th century

Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia

1993 20th century -
1995 20th century

Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church

1995 20th century

Biography
Graduated in 1960 from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He was a professional writer.
In 1964 he was baptized.
Since 1967 he has been a subdeacon in the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka.
Ordained a deacon in 1980 on Palm Sunday in Yaroslavl in the church in the name of St. Innokenty, Metropolitan of Moscow. On Easter 1980, he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan John (Wendland) and sent to one of the poorest churches in the Yaroslavl diocese - St. Trinity in the village. Gorinsky, then served in the village. Petrov near Yaroslavl. In November 1986, he left the Yaroslavl diocese and left the state. Then he served in the Moscow region - in 1987 he was assigned to the temple in the city of Yegoryevsk. He was close to Archbishop Cyprian (Zernov). Rector of the Holy Trinity Church with. Low.
In the summer of 1993, he left the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and moved to the Russian Church Abroad, becoming a clergyman of the Suzdal diocese headed by Valentin (Rusantsov). Currently he is a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (administratively independent from ROCOR since 1995).
Archpriest, rector of the Church in the name of the Holy Tsar Martyr Nicholas II and all the New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, at the Golovinsky Cemetery in Moscow (125212, Moscow, Golovinsky Highway, 13, a temple in the crematorium at the Golovinsky Cemetery; the premises are rented; reg. December 30, 1993 d.), Dean of the Moscow District of the Suzdal Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), writer.
Author of the books: "Little things archi.., proto... and just priestly life" (M., 1995), "Around Ordynka" (St. Petersburg, 2000), "Legendary Ordynka. Portraits", (M., 2001).
Everything is for the best ... M .: B.S.G. PRESS, 2006. 800 p.
Capital truths. M., 2007. 263 p.

MIKHAIL ARDOV (ROAC): "Fr. Vsevolod publicly called our Church a 'pedophile sect'"

09/24/2006 There was a scandal during the live broadcast of the Friday program of the Author's Television (ATV) "New Time" dated September 22. Moreover, the scandal was unexpected and, I must say, especially inappropriate for the reason that the topic of the program was a conversation about the Church and modernity.

To participate in the program, four clergy were invited to the studio, two of whom specialize in preaching Orthodoxy in the so-called "subsocieties". Abbot Father Sergius (Rybko), for example, is known for preaching among young hard rock fans with the blessing of the Patriarch, and biker priest Valery Tumarov brings the Word of God to the biker movement, especially since he himself has been a member of the biker movement for three decades. bike group "Motobrat".

The other two priests are official representative Russian Orthodox Church Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin of the Moscow Patriarchate and the famous Orthodox priest, Archpriest Mikhail Ardov of the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC). Therefore, it is not difficult to understand the feeling of bewilderment of many Orthodox believers, who were interested in listening to the conversation of the clergy about the specific new areas where Orthodoxy is spreading, but instead they witnessed a scandal with screams, strange accusations and other attributes of under-fence showdowns.

One of the priests participating in the program, about Mikhail Ardov, was quickly found, and he kindly agreed to talk about what and how happened in the ATV studio on Friday evening.

Portal-Credo: So, what, oh. Mikhail, it happened that for the second day already believing Muscovites were calling each other and wondering what had angered Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin this time?

O. Mikhail Ardov: In Lately I am somewhat puzzled by the behavior of Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin. In the old days, I remembered him as a man of sufficient intelligence and restraint. We have had occasion to perform together on television and on the radio. And he always behaved quite correctly. I will remember, at least, such a moment as once we participated with Fr. Vsevolod live on the radio "On 7 hills" in the transfer of Vladimir Pozner. Then we discussed the foundations of Orthodox culture, and the well-known character Kirill Frolov, nicknamed Kazya-bazya, also came to the studio with him. And I must say that during that conversation, it was Kazya-bazya who spoke out that, they say, Archimandrite Valentin (Rusantsov) was excommunicated from the Orthodox Church. But oh. Vsevolod at that time did not say a word about this. There were other meetings with him, and always very decent ones.

Therefore, when I learned about the strange, to put it mildly, conflict between Chaplin and Sergei Bychkov, I was very surprised. Because it always seemed to me that Fr. Vsevolod is a more reasonable person.

But what is so special about this time?

I was invited to the program "New Time" on ATV on September 22 ahead of time, and until the last moment I did not even know who would participate there. Already in the studio, where I was very kindly received, I was told that there would be two more priests on the air, and, in particular, about Vsevolod Chaplin. The program consisted, as it were, of two parts, where at first it was about the police and I had to answer questions there. And then, during the commercial break, a studio employee came up to me and said, they say, oh. Vsevolod Chaplin sends you a warning that he will announce on the air that you are an impostor.

Well, what can you think? I told her: "Then tell Father Vsevolod that I will answer him ...". A little later, when there was another, longer pause, I got up from my seat and saw Fr. Vsevolod, who, somewhat stuttering, confirmed: "I will talk about you ...", etc. I again replied that, "speak for God's sake, but I will answer you," and we were again seated in our places before shooting.

Maybe the topic of the program was acute and could somehow provoke aggression?

No, the meaning of the transmission was conceived as a reflection on preaching in non-standard conditions. There was one abbot in the studio, for example, who, with the blessing of the Patriarch, preaches among hard rock fans. The other - whether a priest, or not - I did not even understand, because he was dressed in a biker uniform with all sorts of stripes and shiny buttons.

But no conversation on the topic of whether it is necessary to preach among various marginal personalities did not sound, because Fr. Vsevolod just broke the transfer.

For no reason at all, he had some, I would say, a nervous attack. He did not call me an impostor, but he began to shout out loud that I represented a schismatic group, which he called several times "a sect of pedophiles." The hosts tried to reason with him, but nothing helped.

Frankly, I simply did not expect anything like this, so I had to sit and smile with all this. And then, asking permission to answer, I said Fr. Vsevolod, that in this case I can say about him that he is a foreign intelligence officer. In response to Fr. Vsevolod shouted in a wild rage that it was better to be a foreign intelligence officer than in a "pedophile sect"...

That is, it turns out...

That is, it turns out that he publicly admitted that he was an employee of the competent authorities. It is, of course, an "open secret" that the entire foreign department is at all times engaged in perfectly well-known cases.

But not all employees say this?

Yes, not all. Especially as this time - live on television. The three presenters - two ladies and one gentleman, I must say, were shocked by all this. They all tried to reason with him somehow. The directors tried these monologues about. Vsevolod somehow mixed, but he was completely insane. I didn't expect anything like this from him.

Nevertheless, the broadcast went out and the audience was able to admire all this. But what's next?

In this situation with the accusations of Fr. Vsevolod, in my opinion, two aspects. The first is that the verdict in the case of our Vladyka Valentin (Rusantsov), embroidered with white thread, which was blinded by Vladimir employees, has already been canceled. There has never been any pedophilia there, and all this has long been widely known. I spoke about this. Vsevolod after the shooting, although it was, of course, impossible to talk to him.
In addition, I will not hide the fact that in my speeches I never spare shady and all sorts of unpleasant sides among the Moscow Patriarchate, but I never, in any case, touch on the topics of homosexuality or pedophilia, although there are a lot of scandals about this in the Russian Orthodox Church. We even know the Moscow vicar, who lost his place precisely because of pedophilia, a lot of other similar scandals. But these are personal sins, a disgusting sphere, and to raise such a thing means to delve into dirty laundry, what normal person cannot afford.

As for the second aspect, I certainly could now get the blessing of my superiors and go to court. There are all grounds for this, because Fr. Vsevolod publicly, on the air, called our Church "a sect of pedophiles." The ROAC was not registered with the Ministry of Justice under that name at all, so there are all signs that he insulted the honor and dignity of the Church, violated business reputation etc. But, of course, I will not act in this direction for many reasons, in particular, because in a certain sense I feel sorry for him. You understand, I can't understand what happened...
- That is, there was a feeling that he was insane?
- Yes, I had exactly the feeling that he was in a deranged state. And there can be two explanations for this. Or he, as they say, "has gone nuts." Or he received a certain instruction. Indeed, in the Moscow Patriarchate, after they crushed the ROCOR, there is such a tendency - to get rid of all the others, so as not to interfere. It would, of course, be much the worst option... Well, what really was the cause of this disgrace, then, as they say, time will tell. And God is his judge.
- But you will probably still have to report the incident to your bishop?
- Undoubtedly. Literally tomorrow I will call Vladyka and tell him what happened.

Father - Ardov(real name - Zilberman) Viktor Efimovich, writer.
Ardov is a pseudonym. Born October 21, 1900 in Voronezh. In 1925 he graduated from the economic department of the Institute National economy them. Plekhanov in Stremyanny per. Author of more than 40 collections of humorous stories, satirical essays, feuilletons, film scripts and theatrical sketches, as well as a number of works on the theory and technique of the colloquial genre of pop and circus. Screenwriter of films: Bright path (1940), Happy flight ("Machine 22-12") (1949). He died in 1976 in Moscow.
Mother - Olshevskaya Nina Antonovna. Born in 1908, graduated from Stanislavsky's school-studio, actress of the Moscow Art Theater. Appeared on the screen only twice - in the films "The Man Left Alone" (1930) and "I'll Be Back" (1935). The first husband is Vladimir Batalov.
Children: actor Alexey Vladimirovich Batalov, which became adopted son V.E. Ardova;
Boris Ardov - was born in 1940 in Moscow. After graduating from the Moscow Art Theater School, he was invited as an actor to the Sovremennik Theater. In 1972 he graduated from the Higher Directing Courses and worked as an animator. Since 1975 he has been teaching at VGIK. Associate Professor of the Department acting skills, Ph.D. in History of Arts;
Mikhail Ardov.

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin called priest Mikhail Ardov a "schismatic"

Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate (DECRMP), called on clergy and laity to refuse to participate in TV and radio programs with Mikhail Ardov, a cleric of the so-called Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church (ROAC), a schismatic group centered in Suzdal.
In an interview with an Interfax correspondent, the deputy chairman of the DECR MP said that the other day he had to appear on the same TV program together with M. Ardov. At the same time, he (V. Chaplin - Ed.) was not initially informed about their joint participation in the program.
According to Vsevolod Chaplin, once he already found himself in a similar situation, and as a result he had to declare live that "this person (M. Ardov - Ed.) belongs to an organization that pretends to be the Orthodox Church, but does not is such."
"This time I also said that we are talking about a sect led by a convicted pedophile, a certain Sevastian from Chelyabinsk, and Valentin Rusantsov, a man who was accused of the same thing, but after a massive campaign in his support, his sentence was canceled,” said a representative of the Moscow Patriarchate.
He noted that in the journalistic environment the ROAC was given the title of "sect of pedophiles", which, according to Vsevolod Chaplin, he also announced live.
"I have nothing personally against Mr. Ardov, I respect his talents, but I consider it my duty to testify that he is a schismatic," the source said.
public announcement this fact, in his opinion, "it is especially important in those cases when he (M. Ardov - Ed.), upon invitation, appears on the air in a cassock, with a cross, and at the same time neither he nor the presenters say anything about that this person does not belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, but to this more than strange organization - the ROAC."
Vsevolod Chaplin urged all clergy and laity not to go on air with the participation of M. Ardov, and in the event that, according to him, the organizers and presenters of the programs "put us before a fact, directly expose this schismatic sect."
"I hope that the leadership of the media will not allow the identification of Mr. Ardova with the Russian Orthodox Church," added the deputy chairman of the DECR MP.

Mikhail Viktorovich Ardov (Olshevsky). Born October 21, 1937 in Moscow. Soviet and Russian writer, screenwriter, publicist, memoirist. Until 1993 he was a priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, served in the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses. Cleric of the non-canonical Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church, archpriest, rector of the Moscow church of St. Royal Martyrs and New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia at the Golovinsky Cemetery, Dean of the Moscow Deanery of the ROAC.

In 1960 he graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University. He was a professional writer.

Wrote scripts for films. In particular, together with Alexei Batalov, he wrote the script (as Mikhail Olshevsky) for the fairy tale film Three Fat Men based on the fairy tale of the same name by Yuri Olesha.

In 1964 he was baptized. Since 1967, he has been a subdeacon in the Church of All Who Sorrow on Ordynka. In 1980, on Palm Sunday, he was ordained a deacon in Yaroslavl in the church in the name of St. Innocent, Metropolitan of Moscow.

On Easter 1980 he was ordained a priest by Metropolitan John (Wendland). He served in rural parishes of the Yaroslavl and Moscow dioceses.

Mikhail Ardov, Boris Ardov and Alexei Batalov

In the summer of 1993, he left the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patriarchate and moved to the Russian Church Abroad, becoming a clergyman of the Suzdal diocese, headed by Valentin (Rusantsov). Together with Valentin (Rusantsov), he went into schism, and since 1995 he has been a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Free Church, administratively and canonically independent of ROCOR (in 1998 it was renamed the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church).

He accused the Moscow Patriarchate and the foreign Russian Orthodox Church of working for the KGB.

“We are living in the last Christian times. The world is heading towards the apocalypse at a very high speed. The Moscow Patriarchate is not only a false church because it was founded by the atheist Stalin and his henchmen, but also because it belongs to the so-called world Orthodoxy, that is, it is associated with modernists, ecumenists, with all those who will eventually form a religion. Antichrist. There are no more Orthodox patriarchs in the world now, they are all for the most part “New Calendarists”, among them is the Moscow Patriarch with his entire synod and his bishops. This is already a parody of the church, this is not a church, ”said Ardov.

In the 1990s, he opposed the construction of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, then vowed to himself never to enter this temple. In the future, he repeatedly publicly joked on this topic, calling it “the temple of the Meadow-builder”, and also published his joke that “the architect Ton built the first temple on this site, and the second temple was built by the architect Moveton.”

In September 2006, he provoked criticism of the ROAC from Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman of the DECR.

opposed Olympic Games and any sports competitions, declared the inadmissibility of physical culture and sports for Christians. “The canons of the Orthodox Church forbid us to attend any spectacle, even such seemingly innocent ones as equestrian competitions. And for this reason, a true Christian cannot be either a "fan" or a "cheerleader." But more than that, a true son of the Church cannot engage in either physical education, much less sports, for all such exercises are, in the language of the Church, “care for the flesh”, and the supreme Apostle Paul warns us against this (Epistle to the Romans 13:14) ", he stated.

“Without the church, you cannot be saved. We must be careful to belong to the true church. If a person seeks the truth, he will find the true church for himself. And if he needs Christianity for something else - for peace of mind, for relaxation, or for some other base purposes, then he will not look for the true church, but will be satisfied with what he meets on his way, for example, some beautiful temple, a pseudo-spiritual priest,” Mikhail Ardov pointed out.

Mikhail Ardov has repeatedly spoken negatively about many poets and painters.

Being a supporter of the unification of "true Orthodox churches", he receives communion from representatives of all the "splinters" of ROCOR who have left it.

Writes a column of memoirs famous personalities in the Metro newspaper.

Scripts by Mikhail Ardov:

1963 - Wick (short)
1966 - Three fat men
1972 - Player (Hráč)

Bibliography of Mikhail Ardov:

1995 - Little things archi ..., proto ... and just priestly life
1998 - Return to Ordynka. Memoirs, journalism
2000 - Around Ordynka
2001 - Legendary Ordynka. portraits
2004 - Monograph about the graphomaniac. Memories
2006 - Everything is for the better ...
2006 - Knots for memory
2007 - Common Truths
2008 - Great soul. Memories of Dmitri Shostakovich
2009 - Graveyard Pop Notes
2013 - Portraits are stealthily changing

The whole country is watching. The elderly wife of the artist Gitana Arkadyevna and his 50-year-old disabled daughter Maria were actually locked in their own apartment. Because of a showdown with a neighbor, they cannot even go to their dacha. The artist's brother, writer and rector of the temple Mikhail Ardov, assured: things are in star family really very difficult.

"Daughter Masha speaks with difficulty"

I visit my brother's family regularly, - Mikhail Ardov shares. - His wife does not feel well, but she tries not to complain about her problems. But things are very bad with her daughter Masha: she hardly speaks. But Masha is talented, smart, she wrote many fairy tales and poems. I know that now Gitana Arkadyevna is being helped by three women - workers who cook and clean their house. Comes and Hope - eldest daughter Alexey. They had with my brother complicated relationship due to the fact that he and her mother somehow broke up early and not very well. Of course, this was transferred to the daughter.

Mikhail Ardov - step-brother Alexey Vladimirovich. They have the same mother but different fathers. But the children were brought up together. Alexei and Mikhail also had younger brother Boris, who died in 2004 due to cirrhosis of the liver.

It is very sad in my heart that there is neither Boris nor Alexei nearby, I was left alone, - 80-year-old Mikhail Viktorovich sighs. - When I'm in last time I saw my older brother, he had a very pale face, I understood that there was not much left for him. But still, I still find it difficult to realize that he is not there. Alas, he was no longer young, 88 years old, had been ill for a long time. But when you start thinking about it, nostalgia immediately appears for those times when we all lived together, when our parents were alive. Last years We didn’t see each other very often in his life, but we always talked about those war times when we lived with our mother in evacuation in the Tatar city of Bugulma. From his youth, his brother had a variety of talents, he painted wonderful paintings that were praised by professional artists. And besides, he composed good poems, they were approved by Anna Akhmatova herself.

"His face was damaged"

When Alexey Vladimirovich became popular, he did not lose contact with his family. Although sharing moments from acting life did not love. On the sites, Batalov had a hard time.

During the filming of the film "The Cranes Are Flying", they fought with some partner and Alexei fell right on his face on a small narrow stump, - recalls Mikhail Viktorovich. - His whole face was damaged. Thank God that my brother got to a good surgeon who cured him. I remember how at some point Alexei ceased to be in demand. But that was because he was very picky about scripts. He turned down many offers.

By the way, Mikhail Viktorovich himself did not imitate his brother in choosing a profession: he is a priest.

I became a believer quite early, - continues the archpriest. - And Christianity forbids any person to attend various spectacles. But Aleksey, despite his profession, believed in God from his very youth, and by the end of his life he became a 100% church person. He had familiar priests with whom he often consulted. On the anniversary of Alexei's death, I was unable to meet his family because of the divine service, I prayed all day for the repose of his soul.

A year spent without a brother affected the health of Mikhail Ardov. But this one old man He also takes care of his sick wife.

Recently, I began to get tired very quickly, - Alexei Batalov's brother says sadly. - But of course I fulfill my duties in the temple. My wife big problems with joints, complications have recently begun. We don't have children. There are two women who help. One cleans the house, and the other goes shopping, buys everything you need. This is how we live.