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Pilgrimage to the Fortress-Monastery
•�May 9, 2021
•�1,400 Words •�75 Comments
I visited the Central Cathedral of the Russian Armed Forces, just slightly less than a year after its consecration. It is quite rare that reality exceeds visual media. But the Fortress-Monastery does so, in spades, and that despite its already superlative neo-Byzantine steampunk aesthetics on screen, which are like something out of a Maxim Bedulenko... Read More
Consecration of the Fortress Monastery
•�June 15, 2020
•�41 Comments
The Cathedral of the Armed Forces at Patriot Park was consecrated yesterday. Though I'd say its interior aesthetics look more like something out of Morrowind, not Warhammer 40K.
Where Are Russia's Breeders?
•�August 10, 2019
•�400 Words •�80 Comments
As commenter Reykur recently pointed out - citing the work of the blogger denalt, there is a rather curious phenomenon occurring in a few ethnic Russian regions, where rural fertility has exploded in the past decade. There are precisely four of these regions - Arkhangelsk, Komi, Kirov, and Karelia - and they are all located... Read More
Sergiev Posad 2019
•�August 7, 2019
•�1,000 Words •�27 Comments
Sergiev Posad is a city of slightly more than 100,000 people that is 75 km to the north-east of Moscow. Unlike the other cities on my list, I am not going to say much about Sergiev Posad's socioeconomic status. I was there for a day, and it was filled up with purely "touristic" things. As... Read More
Map of UOC-MP Defections
•�February 26, 2019
•�200 Words •�13 Comments
Found this actively updated map on UOC-MP defections to the (schismatic) Orthodox Church of the Ukraine, which was granted its tomos by Istanbul Bart this January. (h/t Insomniac) Commenter AP has predicted that UOC-MP will become the near exclusive province of Ukraine's Russians in the coming years. But that doesn't seem to be coming along... Read More
Open Thread 61
•�November 3, 2018
•�700 Words •�145 Comments
Blogging October has been an exceedingly successful. While September was my all time record month (thanks largely to my post on The Idiocy of the Average), with 46,000 unique visits and 154,000 pageviews, this past month came close despite the absence of any viral posts - 37,000 visits and 145,000 pageviews. I am now consistently... Read More
Open Thread 60
•�October 26, 2018
•�1,500 Words •�313 Comments
PSA from Patriarch Kirill II on the Ukrainian question in Moscow. Just your normal billboard ad. :) INSOMNIAC RESURRECTED Longtime Russia watchers may recall the Austere Insomniac blog, which used to offer excellent analysis on the Ukraine and was first to introduce the term "svidomy" into the English language. Unfortunately, it later closed down, but... Read More
Who's Istanbul Bart, Anyway?
•�October 20, 2018
•�200 Words •�24 Comments
A year ago I wrote about a huge PEW opinion poll of religious belief in Eastern Europe. As it happens, one of the questions dealt with the question of which Patriarch the Orthodox believers of each country consider to be the highest authority in Orthodoxy. There is a grand total of one country where EP... Read More
The Istanbul Patriarch Plays at Pope and Falls Under Anathema
•�October 17, 2018
•�2,600 Words •�281 Comments
Kiev Pechersk Lavra. This is what Nicetas, Archbishop of Nicomedia, wrote in the 12th century about the Great Schism (1054) between Catholicism and Orthodoxy: Difference between then and now? A millennium ago, the Vicar of Christ presided over a flock that was about as demographically predominant within Christendom as the Russian Orthodox Church is within... Read More
A Brief History of Russian Religiosity
•�September 11, 2018
•�300 Words •�27 Comments
There's been some discussion in the previous thread over whether or not Russian religiosity has increased since the end of the USSR, when for obvious reasons people weren't polled on these questions. It's quite obvious to me that religiosity has increased. 1. Personal observations: Church services in provincial Russia 15 years ago - almost all... Read More
Rise of the Fortress Monastery
•�September 10, 2018
•�200 Words •�161 Comments
So the Russian Ministry of Defense is going to build a Cathedral of the Armed Forces at the Patriot Park in Kubinka, a town near Moscow which also hosts the country's premier tank museum. It is supposed to become a "spiritual and educational center for soldiers, Orthodox priests, and Russian citizens." I think Russia is... Read More
Active Churches in Russia
•�February 11, 2018
•�100 Words •�214 Comments
Number of active churches in the Russian Empire/USSR/post-Soviet space from 1900 to 2000 via the blogger genby. One element of Stalinist propaganda is that he presided over the rebirth of the Russian church. However, one graph is worth thousands of words, and we can immediately see that there was no such thing - there were... Read More
Translation: Patriarch Kirill in China
•�May 15, 2013
•�600 Words
As the Russian Patriarch embarks on a five-day visit to China, Kommersant's Pavel Korobov takes a look at the history, current reality, and future prospects of Orthodoxy in China. Patriarch Kirill arrived in China on a five-day official visit. The leadership of the PRC has already called the First Hierarch's visit an historical event -... Read More
So Apparently Germany Is A Christian Theocracy
•�September 28, 2012
•�400 Words •�3 Comments
At least if you take Michael Bohm's arguments in his latest Moscow Times missive on how Russia Is Turning Into Iran to its logical conclusion. Look, I'm not a fan of blasphemy laws. The First Amendment is a wonderful thing and something that makes the US truly great... even exceptional, to an extent. Although it... Read More
The 5 Types of Russian American
•�June 11, 2012
•�3,000 Words •�181 Comments
In my nearly 20 years experience as a Russian living in the West, I have found that almost all my fellows can be reduced to five basic types: 1) The White Russian; 2) The Sovok Jew; 3) The Egghead Emigre; 4) Natasha Gold-Digger; 5) Putin's Expat. My background and qualifications to write on this topic?... Read More
Russia's Sex Traditions
•�December 9, 2009
•�2,200 Words •�6 Comments
Sean recently suggested Russianists study the history of smell in Russia. I have an even better idea: a history of sex in Russia, or rather my translation of the tabloid article Сексуальные традиции на Руси (Russian Sexual Traditions). It's historically and culturally inaccurate in more than a few places, but will hopefully make for a... Read More
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Anatoly Karlin
About Anatoly Karlin

I am a blogger, thinker, and businessman in the SF Bay Area. I’m originally from Russia, spent many years in Britain, and studied at U.C. Berkeley.

One of my tenets is that ideologies tend to suck. As such, I hesitate about attaching labels to myself. That said, if it’s really necessary, I suppose “liberal-conservative neoreactionary” would be close enough.

Though I consider myself part of the Orthodox Church, my philosophy and spiritual views are more influenced by digital physics, Gnosticism, and Russian cosmism than anything specifically Judeo-Christian.