Moscow, November 22, 2013
Archbishop Mark of Yegorievsk, rector of the Church of the Myrrh-bearing Women Archpriest Alexy Yastrebov, Archpriest Vladimir Vigilyansky, and Archpriest Maxim Kozlov were present at the event.
Launch of the book by Michael Talalai, Inspirer of our peace. The Russian necropolis in Venice, took place there as well.
The evening finished with a performance by the Italian choir, "Coro delle cicale" ("Crickets"), conducted by Giuseppina Casarin, who performed folk songs of different parts of Italy.
Also, at the end of the evening, Rector of St. Tatiana's Church at the Moscow State University was presented with the commemorative medal, made of Murano stone, with the founding date of the first Russian parish in Italy and of the parish of Holy Myrrh-bearing Women in Venice.