Saint patriarch Tikhon and the Soviet power: to a question of a compromise measure, admissible for Church
Development of the relation of the Saint Patriarch Tikhon to the Soviet power is presented in the report. It is shown that initially its rejection of policy of Bolsheviks had exclusively spiritual and moral reasons. The patriarch rejected the political charges built to him and repeatedly repeated that the Church does not interfere with questions of definition of a civil system of the state, redistributions of property, etc. At the same time church canons were more important than the Soviet decrees for it, and for itself(himself) it put court of Church above Bolshevist court. Defending the it is religious a motivated position, the prelate Tikhon agreed with need of church political apathy. For him was not treason to the principles to say that it the Soviet power not the enemy. But he in every possible way sought not to allow transformations of the Moscow Patriarchy into the instrument of political struggle with opponents of the Soviet power.