Marina Zhurinskaya: Without Moscow swearing. She was truly a Christian

Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya (1941-2013)(last name after her first husband - Alfred Zhurinsky, maiden name unknown) graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, defended a diploma in Hittology, worked at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where linguistic typology became her field of study. In the mid-1970s, she was appointed coordinator of the project “Languages ​​of the World” by the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​of the USSR Academy of Sciences, leading the project until 1986. PhD in Philology, has more than 100 publications on linguistic topics. Translator from German (linguistic works, theological texts, as well as Gadamer and Schweitzer). Since 1994 he has been the publisher and editor of the Alpha and Omega magazine. Member of the editorial board of the collection "Theological Works".

In 1975, under the influence of S. S. Averintseva's lectures, she was baptized by Father Alexander Men under the name Anna. After 1986, she left editing linguistic works and switched completely to Orthodox journalism. In 1994, under the influence of Averintsev's circle, she founded the Orthodox educational magazine Alpha and Omega, of which she was editor-in-chief until her death. She died in Moscow on October 4, 2013 after a serious illness.

Marina Andreevna was an editor from God

I have known Marina Andreevna for more than twenty years, and I am grateful to God for that. She was an amazing person, a real Christian intellectual.

In the 1970s and 1980s, many people from her circle came to the Church. Not all of them stayed in it. Many of them saw in the Church some kind of alternative to the existing system, and therefore, when the system collapsed, they did not really need the Church. They did not always leave quietly and calmly, on the contrary - many quite defiantly. Marina Andreevna, unlike the others, stayed to the end. The spiritual child of Father Alexander Men and Father Gleb Kaleda, who was friends with the Lavra monks, she was a person rooted in the Orthodox tradition, which did not interfere with the breadth of her views on church life. Having once come to the Church, she saw in it the Body of Christ. Not a political force, not just an environment in which it is convenient to talk about fashionable topics, namely Christ, to whom she was faithful until her death. And she brought to God very many people, herself becoming for them, so to speak, the door to the Church.

Marina Andreevna was an unusually profound person. Anyone who read her reflections on the text of Holy Scripture could be convinced of this. The business of her life was the magazine "Alpha and Omega". It is amazing how the editorial staff, which consisted of several feeble women, but directed and inspired by Marina Andreevna, could publish such a serious theological journal for twenty years - the only one of its kind, which at some point took first place among our church periodicals. This is her great service to the Russian Church. Taking a modest part in this work, I was a witness to how difficult, how hard each new issue of the magazine was given, and what joy it was when it came out and turned out no worse, and most often better than the previous one.

And I must say that Marina Andreevna was an editor from God. She was able, for example, to discern the future author of Alpha and Omega in a man whom she met by chance while in the hospital. Even in everyday life, she was able to find topics for serious discussion and research.

The Lord judged her to live a very interesting life, but at the end of her life he sent her a severe test of illness. She endured it in full consciousness and with obedience to the will of God.

May the Lord rest the soul of the newly-departed servant of God Anna in the villages of the righteous! Let us remember her and pray for the repose of her immortal soul.

Marina Andreevna is the whole world

Director of the educational Orthodox forum "Orthodoxy and the World" Viktor Sudarikov:

Translator, publisher, editor, Christian thinker, houseplant specialist, jewelry artist, collector and much, much more...
But the main thing is, of course, faith - which is "in the ribs", which determines all thoughts and deeds, which makes a person free and capable of growing spiritually higher and higher.
She was a spiritual child and student of outstanding pastors of the 20th century - Fr. Alexandra Men (who she spoke about as a very strict and serious confessor, not accepting the attitude of some of his exalted admirers towards him) and prot. Gleb Kaleda.

We were introduced to Marina Andreevna in the church of John the Baptist on Presnya by Fr. Andrey Kuraev. Then I sometimes visited her amazing apartment, filled with books, outlandish plants (some of them stood in special closed flasks) and paintings by Elena Cherkasova; even prepared some publications for Alpha and Omega. Marina Andreevna loved and appreciated her friends, she asked with interest about my children ...

Her legacy is enormous. The most interesting theological journal "Alpha and Omega", published since the early 1990s, a collection of paintings, many of his own articles and translations. A talented person is talented in everything. Few people knew that Marina Andreevna had VDNKh diplomas for grown exotic plants. In her old age, she perfectly mastered the manufacture of various jewelry - her "tsatski and trousers".

Yes, even Marina Andreevna loved her cat Mishka and even wrote about him ...

I remember once, Marina Andreevna quoted me the ancient ascetic wisdom that the Lord calls a person to Himself at the moment when he is best prepared for it. And she concluded - "If the Lord prolongs my life, it means that he gives me more time to repent."

Now the ear is ripe.

Kingdom of Heaven to the servant of God Anna ...

I do not remember that her actions or words were outside the Christian understanding of life.

Priest Mikhail Isaev, cleric of the Church of the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos in Krylatskoye:

- I met Marina Andreevna in the late nineties, when I was not yet a priest or even a deacon, but studied at a theological institute. I came to the editorial office of Alpha and Omega, where Marina Andreevna met me and accepted me as a member of the magazine's staff. Since then, we have been in close contact and a lot, and when I was ordained, after some time spiritual ties also strengthened, I became the confessor of Marina Andreevna. I was one of the last to give communion to her in the hospital.

We talked with Marina Andreevna on a variety of topics, and always, even if it was about some everyday things, I was amazed at her wisdom. I do not remember that any of her actions or words were outside the Christian understanding of life. She gave me so many great tips and taught me so much! Communication with her spiritually strengthened. Many noted that after talking with Marina Andreevna, you feel elated. Eternal memory to her!

Everything she did, she did indifferently

Alexander Dvorkin, professor at PSTGU:

A few years ago, when we gathered in memory of Father Gleb Kaleda, Marina Andreevna said a little ironically that when you share memories of a departed person, you always say "I and him." I think that now, when we remember dear Marina Andreevna, we should not be ashamed of this: this is natural, because we are all members of the one Church, communicate with each other and always perceive others precisely through the prism of their communication with us.

Therefore, I want to remember how we met Marina Andreevna. It was 21 years ago. I tried to remember the moment of the meeting, but could not. After returning from America, when I started working in the Department of Religious Education with Father Gleb Kaleda, Marina Andreevna often appeared there. Then she became part of that small community that developed around Father Gleb in the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery. They lived with Yakov Georgievich on a street with the unpronounceable name Krasnoproletarskaya, which was a walking distance from the monastery, in a house with a very cunning system of apartments - an elevator in the middle, and apartments on both sides of it. The entrance was ruined: even the steps on the stairs went at random, it is not clear whether it will be possible to go through them next time or everything will fail. However, for the early 90s, nothing surprising.

And so, after this devastation, I went into the apartment and found myself in a completely different world. External decay was forgotten: there were books, incredible exotic indoor flowers in pots and, of course, the cat Misha, who slept in regal poses on all the chairs. I remember that I immediately took Misha on my knees, and Marina Andreevna said: “Be careful, he only allows priests to scratch his belly.” But he allowed me.

Communication with Marina Andreevna was very intense, because she made me work, made me think and do. The very first projects appeared. Once Marina Andreevna called me and said: "There will be a new theological journal, it is necessary, and the idea arose that you should be its editor-in-chief." I just sat down. Even then I had so many obediences: both Butyrka and sects began to study and taught. But I realized that I wouldn’t be able to simply refuse Marina Andreevna, and I went to Father Gleb and talked to him. Father Gleb said: "Don't worry, I know how to solve this issue."

He really resolved this issue - he said that Marina Andreevna should be the chief editor. Father Gleb realized that this is the very place where Marina Andreevna should be, that this is a job that she will pull out and that will allow her to open up. Indeed, thanks to this, Marina Andreevna opened up and shone even brighter than when I knew her in that narrow circle. Her personality, charm, multifaceted talents opened up to a huge number of people, the magazine became a microcosm, transforming into a macrocosm. Authors and editors, typesetters, friends of the magazine and its readers - all were somehow connected with each other, a very wide coverage turned out. And it is wonderful that this self-realization of Marina Andreevna was in the Church and for the Church, for Christ and, accordingly, for each of us.

Once, after a very interesting conversation, I asked her why she did not express her thoughts in an article. Then she told me that she had long ago refused to write something of her own - she was only an editor. I don’t know whether she herself imposed this restriction on herself or fulfilled someone’s blessing, but time passed, this post ended, and Marina Andreevna began to write and this also enriched a very wide circle of people - incomparably wider than those who had the good fortune to be her direct interlocutors.

The Alpha and Omega magazine is still waiting for its researcher. It is a great happiness that we knew Marina Andreevna, that she compelled us, consoled us, that she edited us. Although she was such an editor with whom she often had to argue. I remember how seriously we argued with her when she was editing my Essays on the History of the Universal Church. But these disputes gave me a lot. She was a serious and caring editor. Everything she did, she did with care. And her indifference stemmed from the most important thing: she was a loving person with a huge heart. Eternal memory to Marina Andreevna.

Marina Andreevna continues her work, her ministry

Hieromonk Dimitry (Pershin):

I would like to note two points, dedicating my story to the blessed memory of Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya.

First of all, this is the utmost honesty towards oneself, by the way, towards one's work, honesty, absolutely incredible for our world, vegetating in everyday half-truth. By this measure, she judged herself and grieved for this world.

And the second. In recent years, it happened that I confessed and communed Marina Andreevna, but what I will say is not a secret confession. Almost all the time she had to overcome a very difficult internal situation, which is sometimes called depression.

This was the state that Father Sophrony (Sakharov) wrote about - a feeling of inner emptiness that sucks all the strength out of a person. This state can last for years or decades. From this vacuum, she emerged into Divine grace - in prayer, in the sacraments of Christ's Church, in communion with loved ones. And it was also a cross, invisible to many. In her texts, we do not find all the tragedy of these experiences, because the texts are a word addressed to people, and she took care of people.

And we came to Marina Andreevna and shared with her our problems, perplexities, grief - and received answers, gained support in her wisdom and sympathy, not understanding what the price of this active love is. According to the exact remark of Marina Andreevna's husband, Yakov Georgievich Testelec, the gifts of God are usually combined with suffering imposed on us. And the higher the calling, the heavier the cross.

It seems to me that it is important to understand that it is not just a certain person who has passed into another world. An era is passing. The people in whom the connection of times is revealed to us are leaving. It was given to them to keep it from disintegration, adjusting the dislocations of this world. Among them are father Alexander Men, Sergey Sergeevich Averintsev and others - those who remained true to the traditions of high European culture. Native to God, they extended their love and care to all who needed them.

I remember when I was a student, Marina Andreevna sent me with a package of various chicken bones and cartilage to Sergei Sergeevich Averintsev - Sergei Sergeevich had a lot of cats, and Marina Andreevna's cat Mishka did not eat everything, something was left. So in the hungry nineties they helped each other. After all, you also had to think about it, live it and worry about it. I would like us to at least a little follow Marina Andreevna in this attention to seemingly trifles, on which a lot depends on the destinies of people, and those animals, flowers and other creations that God has entrusted to us.

Praying for the repose of her soul, we understand that now the Lord reveals Himself to her, reveals the secrets of His Kingdom.

Shortly before leaving, Marina Andreevna said that there comes a time when there are already more people who love and love you there than here, and they call you there. Eternity turns to us, acquiring faces and already familiar features.

But when we go there, we stay here. We are invisibly present in the inner world of everyone we love, and it does not matter where our soul currently resides. Now she is there, probably, praying for us, because the love in her heart has become not less, but more, because it has multiplied with Divine love, dissolved by this love.

And now Marina Andreevna continues her work, her ministry. Her testimony continues in her books, articles, audio and video recordings, films with her participation. It would probably be right if we, on our part, did what we were supposed to, but did not do, so that when we cross this line, we would not be ashamed of it there.

Lived more than one life

Andrey Kibrik, Doctor of Philology, Head of the Department of Typology and Areal Linguistics of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

Apparently, most people know Marina Andreevna as a figure in Orthodox journalism, the creator and editor-in-chief of the Alpha and Omega magazine. But she sowed many seeds in her life, lived, one might say, more than one life, and at the beginning of her career worked as a linguist at the Institute of Linguistics. It so happened that she became the coordinator of the "Languages ​​of the World" project. At that time, the word "project" was not very much used, but in fact it was a voluminous project for describing many, and in the future, all the languages ​​that exist on earth.

Here is such an unexpected project with a big swing conceived by linguists in the mid-seventies. A special format was created to describe different languages ​​that are very different in their structure, so that they can be represented in a similar way. And large-scale work on the preparation of this edition began. For the first 12 years, Marina Andreevna acted as a coordinator under the general supervision of Viktoria Nikolaevna Yartseva.

During these, as it seems now, short years, Marina Andreevna and the team, which included Yasha Testelets, managed to accumulate a huge amount of material. As you know, then Marina Andreevna decided to take up a completely different activity and left the Institute of Linguistics, and I eventually became her successor.

All these years we continue to work on the publication of "Languages ​​of the World", 17 volumes have already been published, all of them describe different languages. Three more volumes will be released in the coming months. The total volume of the publication is about eight thousand pages. We never forget that Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya stood at the origins of the project, and we note this in the preface to each volume. Only for the last few years we have been preparing books based on completely new articles, and until about 2005 we mainly published articles, albeit updated, revised, but still collected directly by Marina Andreevna. What a backlog she has prepared for us!

Our small team always remembers what role Marina Andreevna played. I think that her editorial hand was largely filled by her in the process of working on these linguistic articles in the already distant Soviet years. Marina Andreevna, as has been said more than once, has done many good deeds. At one time, she helped publish a collection dedicated to the anniversary of my father Alexander Evgenievich Kibrik.

My parents were also well acquainted with Marina Andreevna. This morning I came from the dacha, from their dacha, where there is a large apple orchard. Marina Andreevna was not only a florist, but also a gardener. I remember talking about apple trees, different varieties of apples, how to grow them, how to pick them. And I just brought a box with our apples. Although there is more than enough food here, I will put it here and ask those who wish to take apples with them and also remember Marina Andreevna as a gardener.

Bringing joy to those around you

Vasily Glebovich Kaleda, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Professor of the Department of Practical Theology, PSTGU:

The Kaled family is especially grateful to Marina Andreevna for the tremendous, selfless work on the literary heritage of Father Gleb. In the early 90s, she was his spiritual daughter and made a huge contribution to perpetuating his memory. It is to her that we owe much to the publication of his literary heritage; without her, some of his works would have remained only a part of the family archive.

Back in 1991, Marina Andreevna, having read her father's Christmas sermon "Magi", organized its publication in the form of a small brochure on newsprint - then for all of us it was an event. Later, in 1994, shortly before Fr. Gleb, she invited him to write an article about the Shroud of Turin especially for the second issue of the Alpha and Omega magazine. The Pope has already written articles about the Shroud of Turin for the ZhMP and for a number of other magazines. To make his work easier, Marina Andreevna offered to make a digest of his articles, to which he agreed.

Remembering their joint work on this article, Marina Andreevna, with her inherent irony and humor, excellent command of the literary word, described the different types of authors she met as an editor: “... There are two types of bad authors. Some give careless sheets and say complacently: "well, correct it there, well, add it - in general, do what you want, it's all unimportant"; at the same time, the quality of the finished publication is entirely attributed to their own account and they completely ignore the fact that the printed text has little in common with the original monument of thought. Others usually pronounce the same pathetic text with slight variations: “Keep in mind, I suffered all this and will fight for every comma.”

Publishers with the rudiments of sanity usually don't publish them, while others try to rise to the challenge and come close to having a heart attack; finally, the third, retreating under the pressure of the author, print everything as it is, in order to listen to the reproaches of not only colleagues and readers, but also the hero of the occasion himself about the sad result: “Well, was it really difficult to fix this?” Father Gleb belonged to the fourth type of authors, he is the only correct one. The manuscript returned to us again and again with paragraphs crossed out and pages re-inscribed in marvelous professorial handwriting ... Before my eyes, something happened that every professional linguist admires as a miracle: the transformation of thoughts into words, and words into text. And when the second issue of the magazine was ready, and dad had only a few days to live, Marina Andreevna persuaded the director of the printing house to make separate reprints of the article, which he managed to sign with his family and friends, for which we are still grateful to her.

Soon after the death of Father Gleb, in one of the Moscow churches, I saw a brochure about the Shroud of Turin behind a candle box, and the idea arose to prepare a separate edition of my father's work on this shrine. I called Marina Andreevna, as the editor of the magazine in which my father's article was published, expressed my idea, which she supported, and came to her house for negotiations. Since that time, our cooperation with her began on the publication of the works of Father Gleb. Father Gleb's article entitled "The Shroud of Our Lord Jesus Christ" was published as a separate brochure, later reprinted many times and printed in other periodicals. In the next issue (No. 3) of the magazine, along with an obituary, Marina Andreevna published her father's sermon on Russian saints.

After that, the question naturally arose of publishing other papa's works, and first of all "The House Church", which is a series of essays, many of which were not finally completed and had only a handwritten version with many corrections. Realizing that it is impossible to prepare a whole book for publication at once, taking into account the total employment, therefore, several essays were edited and printed, which then made up a separate book (first edition 1997). She was helped in this by Natalia Alekseevna Erofeeva, who for many years was the permanent and indispensable processor of Father Gleb's manuscripts.

Simultaneously with the work on the “Home Church”, Marina Andreevna began to work on the notes of the prison priest (“Stop on your ways”), which were published in 1995. Not wanting to dwell on this, she offered to collect all the audio recordings (some of them of extremely low quality) of his sermons from my father's spiritual children, together with Natalya Alekseevna Erofeeva, transferred them to paper and prepared a collection of sermons "The Fullness of Life in Christ" (1996).

Marina Andreevna was very sensitive to the author's text and spoke with me every editorial revision. I would like to note that when publishing books, she was not only engaged in purely editorial work, but also thought through its entire layout, including the book format, font size, design, cover colors.

Later, she published in her mother's journal (L.V. Kaleda - nun George) memories of her father, the holy martyr Vladimir (No. 24) and mother's memories of Fr. Glebe (No. 31-32), which later, somewhat supplemented, were included in the large collection "Priest Gleb Kaleda - Scientist and Shepherd" (2007, 2012).

With the help of Marina Andreevna, the series "The Spiritual Experience of Russian Women's Asceticism" was created in the publishing house at the Zachatievsky Monastery. The design of the series was suggested by her, and she was the editor of several books in the series. She also participated in organizing the publication of the monastic series of akathists.

In 2008, she offered to write me an article on the problem of the relationship between mental and spiritual illnesses, which I deal with as a psychiatrist, this was my first publication in a theological journal, for which I am very grateful to her.

Later, when we were preparing collections dedicated to Father Gleb (2007, 2012) and nun Georgy (2012) at the publishing house of the Zachatievsky Monastery, as well as the latest edition (2013) of The Home Church (together with my mother’s memories), we always consulted with her as to conceptual issues, as well as on the design of the book and cover, while her opinion was decisive for us. I would like to note that the idea to publish "Home Church" together with my mother's memories of Father Gleb (in this publication they were called "Our Home Church") belonged to Marina Andreevna.

Marina Andreevna has been publishing the Alpha and Omega magazine for almost twenty years. Over the years, a considerable number of Orthodox magazines have appeared, many of which, having existed for several years at best, have sunk into oblivion. The journal "Alpha and Omega" was published regularly, and it is hard to believe that this is the merit of one middle-aged amazing woman - Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya, in Anna's holy baptism.

Her house with a large number of exotic plants and an important strolling huge cat Mishka gave the impression of some kind of oasis of calm and tranquility.
Father Gleb, one of her confessors, liked to repeat that "Christianity is a joyful fullness of life." Marina Andreevna possessed this amazing joyful fullness of life, and she carried the light of this joy to those around her.

The last time I spoke to her was this summer, when she was already confined to a hospital bed. She talked a little about her illnesses, talked more about her magazine, about the fact that the next double issue of Alpha and Omega magazine would be the last, and about how she sees it.

Marina Andreevna is gone, but the books she created, the magazines, the publication of each of which was an event, collections, still grow green on the windows of our apartment, and behind the glass door of the bookcase on the pages of a surprisingly kind book continues its life charming cat Mishka.
Eternal memory to her.

She liked having happy people around

Tatyana Petrovna Tselekhovich, candidate of philological sciences, one of the authors of the journal "Alpha and Omega":

It seems St. John Chrysostom in one of the funeral speeches noted that after the loss of a loved one, the living begin to grieve that they did not love him, did not say something, did not do something. After the departure of Marina Andreevna, I do not have this feeling of incompleteness: each visit to her monastery was an event for me, and each time it was complete and with a beautiful afterword. Even pauses in the conversation did not cause embarrassment, because they were to the point and, as they say, with meaning.

She knew how to listen. She was attentive and did not rush to conclusions - she clarified, asked again, asked to clarify those points in the interlocutor's monologue that seemed vague to her. We drank tea, ate grapes and smiled at each other. I don’t remember who else could make me laugh like she did, sometimes I laughed to tears: “This can’t be!” And she repeated with an imperturbable look: “Exactly so, dear Tanya.” I loved being close to her. I managed to say that I love her.

When a person leaves, for those who remain, material evidence of his presence is important, something needs to be sorted out, smelled, tried on - remembered. Marina Andreevna gave me books and magazines, cosmetics and jewelry. We corresponded. And each of her letters is also an event, a completed whole story / friend's advice / mother's teaching. But somehow the set made by her is especially dear to me: a bracelet and beads, bright, it seemed to me right away - even too much.

She liked that there were happy people around, that they rejoiced and did not hesitate to adorn themselves. I was shy, and then - on each new visit to Moscow "to Marina Andreevna" I tried to dress myself up in something singing and sunny, and if femininity has increased in me during this time, this is her merit. I remember once we even went shopping together, choosing jewelry - it was a triumph of taste and a master class for beginner ladies!

She had many friends, famous, ordinary - for her - wonderful. She loved our Belarus, was a friend of the Nikolsky Monastery in the city of Gomel and knew the inhabitants there, she had a particularly cordial friendship with Archimandrite Savva (Mazhuko), who later introduced us. I am grateful that in this way I was involved in the process of publishing the Alpha and Omega magazine and was also among its authors.

Marina Andreevna was a direct person, without hypocrisy and double standards. Sometimes her directness and uncompromisingness could seem impudent and even offensive, but even behind this “yes-yes, no-no” there was sensitivity, love and the ability to understand and forgive. Whatever she talked about - about religion, about politics, about culture, about Russia - all her conversations were Christ-centered. Her life was Christ-centered. For her, the Savior was not a theorized ideal, an absolute, but a living, very dear to her, really existing with her - the Person, the Person Whom she loved. And her love was contagious.

She often quoted the Gospel, referred to it. “Read the Gospel, baby, everything is written there” - this has already become my life credo. She remembered the Apostle Paul: pray without ceasing, give thanks for everything - live in joy. And also about the fact that Christianity does not know zombie stereotyped believers, but only personalities - and everyone has their own story.
We talked a lot about love stories, about the relationship of the sexes in the modern world, so many jokes were made about this - not offensive to anyone, just funny, like the naked truth. Marina Andreevna loved her husband very much. When I looked at the photos from her funeral, I experienced an acute sense of loss, noticing Yakov Georgievich on them, his bewildered face, sunken cheeks and wearily lowered hands.

It was like a reflection of Gogol's Afanasy Ivanovich from The Old World Landowners. Some believe that this is the best work about love in Russian literature. They are right, but the reality is even better. Such attention, care, respect, sensitivity of Marina Andreevna and Yakov Georgievich to each other - evoked tenderness and a feeling of gratitude for the opportunity to observe the example of the Family, faithful to each other, loving people. And here it becomes obvious what it means: “the meaning of Orthodox marriage is in the love of two,” and not in procreation.

They say that there is no continuation, that you can’t take anything with you to the grave, and here you can argue. There are people who take the whole world with them. Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya is an epoch in the history of Russian Orthodoxy, and these are not loud words: already only one “magazine about Christ”, to which she devoted so much strength and knowledge, gave her health - a weighty argument for her contribution to theology.

When a loved one leaves, the living mourn themselves as well, because they feel sorry for those who they were next to this person. I feel sorry for myself. I will never again notice a quiet magical light through the cactus thickets in the windows of the first floor, I will not hear slow steps outside the door and feel the warmth of my cheek, I will not be grumbled and no longer will they give me a handkerchief so that I wipe away the tears that unexpectedly escaped from my soul taps. , I will not listen to Tsoi with her and look at paintings and books ... As if she took a part of me with her - these days I part with that Tanya - with sadness and gratitude.

Once, Marina Andreevna remarked to my lamentations about the unsettledness of good Orthodox people in the world: “It happens on earth, but remember: the eye has not seen and the ear has not heard what the Lord has prepared for those who love Him? ..”.

I just now remembered. And she already knows. And together - we will live, in anticipation of a new meeting.

She was truly a Christian

P Rotopriest Alexy Uminsky, Rector of the Church of the Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhly:

Lover of Christ... She was truly a Christlover. This is the most important thing that people began to understand when they met her, when they began to communicate with her, to recognize her. When we read her wonderful articles, when we listened to her discourses about the Church. Christ Lover...

There are always very few such people. But it is these people who primarily influence the world. We are well aware of this from the words of St. Seraphim of Sarov, but we do not seriously think about it. Well, how can a person save thousands? And so, imperceptibly, it turns out that it happens that when there is a Christ-lover or a Christ-lover, the world changes, the space of life changes. And this is especially suddenly understood when this person is separated from us.

Marina Andreevna can be called a teacher of the Church. Well, or a teacher. Because she really taught our newborn Church of the last decades a lot. She taught and taught Christians a lot. For example, she always, constantly, taught everyone human dignity. It was a very important science, which she herself mastered and tried to instill in others. Teach Christians about human dignity.

She taught and taught many freedom, real. Such, not unbridled freedom, irresponsible, but deep, responsible freedom of a Christian within the Church - that is, a very great responsibility.

She taught many people to look at the world through the eyes of a child. Despite the fact that she is a white-haired person, she did not stop admiring and wondering at this world. In any plant that she saw and loved as a living being, butterflies, flowers, beloved cats, she saw the love of God for humanity. Her love for Christ extended to the world, as she understood the words: "Go, preach to all creatures." For her, this creature, in love for her, was also a sermon, a conversation about Christ. This is an amazing teaching that she left us, such dry and almost lifeless people of the 21st century.

Of course, she loved Christ very much, and therefore she taught, first of all, believers, those who are called Christians, who are called Orthodox, to seek in their lives meetings with Christ. There was nothing more precious than this meeting with Christ, imitation of Christ, thoughts about Christ, longing for Christ, which was so alive in her, did not allow her to be calm, disturbed her all the time. This is what she constantly taught and continues to teach.

This teaching is always small, but it is very important, it is wonderful, it is teaching that makes us people standing in Christ.

We are following her today. The word "burial" does not fit in at all with what we have in Christ. Because when a funeral is a victory for death. But today, Christian burial is always a victory of life. These words that we heard today at the funeral, these prayers are amazing, which all the time herald the victory of life, and no death. It is bitter for us to lose such an amazing person in this life, this is really a huge loss for us, but for us it is also a gain, because a testimony in Christ, a true testimony of faith, is always a gain, it is always new. A new voice that says that Christ has risen, that death has been conquered, and that life lives.

Thanks to everyone who came today to this festive, solemn day, because today is really a holiday for Marina Andreevna. She is with Christ whom she loved so much. She has a real birthday today - a real Christian birthday. As for us, I hope it will be so. For every Christian, it is a birthday in Christ.

We met Marina Andreevna a little over twenty years ago at the very moment when I had just begun to appear in the light magazine Alpha and Omega. And our first meeting was just devoted to the journal, the formation of its editorial board. Marina Andreevna invited me to the editorial board.

Our initial fellowship took place in the magazine's contemplation of what is happening in the Church. We talked about the need for real spiritual enlightenment, living theology, and not "reprint". In the early nineties of the last century, there was mainly a reprint reprint of theological works of the past. Yes, it was important, necessary. But this "reprint" still continues in the minds of many Christians.

And Marina Andreevna then decided to go a different, very difficult, unknown path. I would even say - impudent for a woman who has a command in church to be silent.

Marina Andreevna was never silent, greatly revering the Apostle Paul and the patristic tradition. Moreover, she spoke in such a way that her voice became the voice of the Church. Her feminine, as it were, was lost, she already had what the apostle Paul spoke about: “In Christ there is neither male nor female” (Gal. 3: 28).

She set herself and the magazine the goal of speaking with the people of the Church in theological, modern, Christian language within the framework of the problems that the Church faces today. And she did it brilliantly.

All these twenty years the magazine has occupied and occupies (I don't want to speak only in the past tense) its unique place. During this time, he did not have a single competitor. The magazine, which spoke about complex theological problems, from the very beginning was addressed to the modern educated Christian, who thinks, reads, often only becomes a churchgoer. Alpha and Omega has become a special form of theological education for new Christians who have recently come to the Church. Moreover, I know from the life of my parish that many people who have just become Christians love this magazine very much, even without higher education. It is always for readers - a new meeting with the Church, a new look at the patristic heritage.

And it was Alpha and Omega that made friends with Marina Andreevna. We began to communicate.

For all the people who at least somehow encountered her in life, Marina Andreevna causes tremendous respect and great reverence. Not only by their education, activity. But most importantly - amazing spiritual wealth. Marina Andreevna turned out to be a true Christian of the 21st century.

She lived with an all-consuming love for the Church, a constant striving for Christ. It was clear to everyone who talked with her that for Marina Andreevna Christ is life.

Despite the fact that she had a very difficult character, it most often happens with a truly very lively thinking person who is constantly in conflict with himself.

Marina Andreevna was very truthful, and hence the sharpness in her judgments and responsibility for her words. Moreover, this truthfulness was a property of her Christianity.

At the same time, she was a very vulnerable person who suffered greatly from what was happening in the world, in the Church, among Christians.

Marina Andreevna was capable of some completely naive from the point of view of this world, absolutely not pragmatic and even insane actions. She did them solely out of understanding: Christ would have done the same.

To talk about what a wonderful interlocutor Marina Andreevna was, probably, is superfluous. Many people know this. As well as what a great publicist she was. Her bright articles are in the public domain.

Marina Andreevna easily got along with people, opened up, giving herself to interlocutors, making them her friends.

Those who at least once met Marina Andreevna fell under her charm, tried to be in her orbit.

She loved young people very much. And when Marina Andreevna also fell in love with Russian rock, it became clear that she was just a very young person.

Marina Andreevna is a person of a very high standard. Everything she has done in her life. Even her “tsatski and bryaki” - jewelry that Marina Andreevna began to make at the end of her life - turned out to be truly beautiful. She also gave them to our parish charity fairs, and for them we received large sums that went to help those in need for whom the events were held.

The culture that Marina Andreevna possessed was the culture of the highest standard. She is from the galaxy of Sergei Sergeevich Averintsev. There are always very few carriers of such a culture, you can count it on the fingers. Now it's even less.

And at the same time, she was a person in love with the world around her, created by God: in nature, in flowers, in trees, in adored cats.

Marina Andreevna could still give us a lot, with her intellect, with her heart, her energy.

The last months, which she spent in intensive care under an artificial respiration apparatus, became for her a real feat of martyrdom. With her energy to be bedridden, helpless, even without the ability to speak. Recently, she could only articulate some words, and in order to understand them, she had to carefully monitor her lips.

It was clear that she, like a Christian, was trying to gather all her inner strength in order to preserve her inner peace, not to splash in despair, not to lose touch with God.

Two weeks ago, when I was in her intensive care unit, taking communion, Marina Andreevna asked me to read the waste over her.

Then, almost always being unconscious, she came to her senses literally for a minute, when they came to her with the Holy Gifts. I communed Marina Andreevna on Sunday, and she regained consciousness exactly when I came to her with the Holy Gifts, consciously took communion, and then went into a peaceful state of rest.

The same thing was told to me by Father Dimitry (Pershin), who gave Marina Andreevna communion for the last time, on Monday. She regained consciousness for a minute, took communion, somehow especially desiring this, with some special greed (here this word seems appropriate to me) and - again she went into an unconscious state.

I trust that Marina Andreevna is with Christ, whom she loved so much. Eternal memory to her.

Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya(born) - Soviet and Russian journalist, publicist, linguist, editor of the Orthodox magazine Alpha and Omega. Candidate of Philology.

Biography

Marina Zhurinskaya is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, she defended her diploma in Hittology. As an intern, she got into distribution, where she immediately got linguistic typology - an area that is usually dealt with by employees with long service. She worked at the institute for almost 20 years. Author of over a hundred scientific papers. In the mid-1970s, Marina Zhurinskaya was appointed coordinator of the IRL project of the USSR Academy of Sciences "Languages ​​of the World", led the project until 1986.

In 1975 she received Orthodox baptism. Since 1994 he has been the publisher and editor of the Alpha and Omega magazine. Member of the editorial board of the collection "Theological Works".

Marina Zhurinskaya has a cat called Mishka, her book "Mishka and some other cats and cats: a strictly documentary narrative" was published in Nizhny Novgorod and went through two reprints (2006, 2007, 2009).

June 26, 1941 was born Marina Zhurinskaya, linguist, founder and editor of the Orthodox-intellectual journal Alpha and Omega.

Private bussiness

Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya (1941-2013)(last name after her first husband - Alfred Zhurinsky, maiden name unknown) graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, defended a diploma in Hittology (probably under the influence of V.V. Ivanov). As an intern, she was assigned to the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where her field of study was linguistic typology. In the mid-1970s, Marina Zhurinskaya was appointed coordinator of the "Languages ​​of the World" project of the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​of the USSR Academy of Sciences, and led the project until 1986. The aim of the project was to create general theoretical principles for describing any language and to publish an encyclopedia "Languages ​​of the World". PhD in Philology, has more than 100 publications on linguistic topics. Translator from German (linguistic works, theological texts, as well as Gadamer and Schweitzer). Since 1994 he has been the publisher and editor of the Alpha and Omega magazine. Member of the editorial board of the collection "Theological Works".

In 1975, under the influence of S. S. Averintseva's lectures, she was baptized by Father Alexander Men under the name Anna. After 1986, she left editing linguistic works and switched completely to Orthodox journalism. In 1994, under the influence of Averintsev's circle, she founded the Orthodox educational magazine Alpha and Omega, of which she was editor-in-chief until her death. The journal is not an official organ of the Russian Orthodox Church, however, it received high marks from the Patriarchs of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and Kirill, who noted that the journal "has become one of the most popular publications among domestic Christian periodicals."

What is famous

She edited the "Languages ​​of the World" series, led sections on structural typology in several collections. She founded the Orthodox intellectual and educational magazine "Alpha and Omega", dedicated to the popularization of biblical studies, patristics, Church history, theology. Member of the editorial board of the collection of the Russian Orthodox Church MP "Theological Works".

What you need to know

Marina Zhurinskaya

There was no Hittology at Moscow State University, it was planted by comparative linguists led by V.V. Ivanov. M.A.’s diploma was not, in the strict sense, a scientific work, nor were her encyclopedic articles written in the 1970s. for various collections. They popularized the ideas developed in those years by the theorists V. Zvegintsev and I. Melchuk. Structural typology proper was founded in the USA by Grinberg in the 1960s, in Russia it flourished already in the 1980s (Nedyalkov, Khrakovsky, Kibrik, etc.). Therefore, Zhurinskaya's scientific activity in linguistics was more popularizing, and her departure from the Institute of Linguistics was a transition to the popularization of Orthodoxy.

In the 1990s in the wake of perestroika, several magazines about the Bible and the Church were created (“World of the Bible”, “Church and Time”, etc.), designed to intellectually feed the near-church intelligentsia, focused primarily on S. S. Averintsev and Metropolitan Anthony of Sourozh (Bloom) . The journal Alpha and Omega published mainly articles on the topics of the Bible, patristics, theology and hagiology, as well as translations of biblical and patristic texts.

Direct speech

“The problem of translating the Holy Scriptures is relevant now for almost all Christian Churches and peoples: translations that are quite adequate for their time need to be updated, revised, since the language is constantly changing, and therefore the texts become outdated, become archaic. However, this problem, which is common to all, has to be solved in each specific case individually, since the translation or revision of existing texts of Scripture in national languages ​​should be carried out in line with the relevant traditions - linguistic, philological, cultural. Marina Zhurinskaya.

“Even if the Russian Orthodox Church disappears somewhere – which is impossible, but even if it disappears somewhere and only one priest remains in it – a bitter drunkard and a notorious informer – I will remain his last parishioner and we will mourn our sins together.” "Marina Zhurinskaya: No Moscow Swearing". Orthodoxy and the world 12.05.2011 .

7 facts about Marina Zhurinskaya

• Zhurinskaya's diploma was devoted to the language of the ancient Hittites; she did not defend her dissertation.
• Both of Zhurinsky's husbands were prominent linguists - Alfred Zhurinsky and Yakov Testelets.
• The Alpha and Omega magazine was founded in 1994 as the Scientific Notes of the Interfaith Society for the Dissemination of the Holy Scriptures in Russia (ORSPR), and it received the blessing of the ROC MP only in 1996.
• The first publications of articles by A. Dvorkin, A. Kuraev and E. Homogorov appeared on the pages of the journal.
• Marina Zhurinskaya's book "Mishka and some other cats and cats: a strictly documentary narrative", dedicated to her cat Mishka, went through two reprints (2006, 2007, 2009).
• At the age of 70, Zhurinskaya turned to the topic of rock culture and wrote an article about Viktor Tsoi. After that, at the invitation of Vyacheslav Butusov, who liked the article, she visited a rock concert for the first time in her life.
• Condolences in connection with the death of Marina Zhurinskaya were expressed by Patriarch Kirill.

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Marina Andreevna Zhurinskaya(born 1943) - Soviet and Russian journalist, publicist, linguist, editor of the Orthodox magazine Alpha and Omega. Candidate of Philology.

Biography

Marina Zhurinskaya is a graduate of the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, she defended her diploma in Hittology. As an intern, she was assigned to the Institute of Linguistics, where she immediately got linguistic typology - an area that is usually dealt with by employees with long service. She worked at the institute for almost 20 years. Author of over a hundred scientific papers. In the mid-1970s, Marina Zhurinskaya was appointed coordinator of the IRL project of the USSR Academy of Sciences "Languages ​​of the World", led the project until 1986.

In 1975, she received Orthodox baptism with the name Anna. Since 1994 he has been the publisher and editor of the Alpha and Omega magazine. Member of the editorial board of the collection "Theological Works".

Marina Zhurinskaya's book "Mishka and some other cats and cats: a strictly documentary narrative", dedicated to the cat Mishka who lived in her family for a long time, was published in Nizhny Novgorod and went through two reprints (2006, 2007, 2009).

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Even if the Russian Orthodox Church disappears somewhere - which is impossible, but even if it disappears somewhere and only one priest remains in it - a bitter drunkard and a notorious informer - I will remain his last parishioner and together we will mourn our sins.

The editor-in-chief of the theological almanac "Alpha and Omega", a publicist, writer, translator, died on October 4 after a long illness. We ask for prayers for the repose of the new pr. Anna (baptized name).

She graduated from the philological faculty of Moscow State University, a diploma in Hittology. For about 20 years she worked at the Institute of Linguistics, in the sector of general linguistics. Specialization - general typology, general grammar, grammatical semantics. For 10 years she was the chief manager of the "Languages ​​of the World" group, whose goal was to create general theoretical principles for describing any language and to publish the "Languages ​​of the World" encyclopedia. PhD in Philology, has more than 100 publications on linguistic topics. Translator from German (linguistic works, as well as Gadamer and Schweitzer). Since 1994 he has been the publisher and editor of the Alpha and Omega magazine. Member of the editorial board of the collection "Theological Works".

Once upon a time, I formulated such a simple rule for myself: we understand arithmetic, sometimes very well. And God - He knows algebra.

We are very fond of giving clear definitions, categorical assessments, although our knowledge is very limited. And God sees the whole world, all its history and modernity. I will keep silent about the future.

Of course, clarity and certainty are useful, who would argue. But there are two things, the clear definition of which greatly hinders the understanding of their essence. Yes, and their categorical assessments, one might say, are in vain underfoot.

For example, we are generally against Freudianism and are always ready to scold it. But Freud, although he created an incorrect model of consciousness, was an intelligent person and knew how to help people. And among his followers there are at least interesting people; So, one day in some materials of the conference, among kilometers of annoying constructions, I came across the words that the best thing a psychoanalyst can do for a patient is to send him to confession. Agree, there is a reason for this.

So, Freud came up with the idea that a desire for death is inherent in a person. In general, this is not news; and Shakespeare wrote about it (“I call death”), and who knows who else. Very convincing, by the way - a science fiction writer in the story "The Blue Bottle" about a mysterious Martian vessel that fulfills the owner's innermost desire. Naturally, they hunt him, but everyone who got him is found dead.

Finally, a very sane person understands that the bottle really honestly fulfills a cherished desire - and this is the desire to die - and overrides all its exciting magic in the simplest way: he firmly determines that there must always be some amount of whiskey in the bottle for him. And on this relatively harmless desire, both he and the bottle calm down.

And now let's try to suppress the cries of protest against whiskey (whiskey has nothing to do with it at all) and against Freud and think: is this idea about the main human aspiration so false? As soon as we believe that man was created by God and that the soul is by nature a Christian, we can recognize the validity of the idea that this soul, suffering from its fall in a fallen world (groaning and tormenting, according to the apostle Paul), trusts in the mercy of God and to the opportunity to pass into re-being — in the Kingdom of Heaven. So it turns out that Freud is Freud, and the thought of a place, “where there is no illness, sadness, no sighing, but endless life”, and the desire to go there are not only permissible for a Christian, but dear to him.

Then begins the neglect of earthly life, physicality, abhorrence of the flesh and marriage, reasoning that the body is the prison of the soul and other obscure constructions, entailing disasters and deviations into heresy. I do not want to talk about the future; it remains only to hope that the Lord is merciful even to those who neglect His Providence for mankind.

Or very sad things: unauthorized suppression of life. And it happens that not only their own. And with the best of intentions.

…Let's do a poetic intermission. :

I was given a body - what should I do with it,
So single and so mine?
For the quiet joy to breathe and live
Who, tell me, should I thank?

I am the gardener, I am the flower,
In the darkness of the world, I am not alone.
On the glass of eternity has already fallen
My breath, my warmth.

The pattern will be imprinted on them,
Recently unrecognizable.
Let the moments flow down the dregs -
Do not cross out the cute pattern.

(By the way, I can’t help but grumble: in samizdat Mandelstam it was “in the greenhouse”, which seems more meaningful both because of the fact that the “flower” and because of the “glasses” that the greenhouse abounds, and the dungeon is quite the opposite .)

In this short poem is the key to understanding the sense in which we can be considered co-workers with God ( see 1 Cor 3:9). The Apostle Paul says this about himself (well, and about the other Apostles) as a doer of the work of Christ, about the evangelist and enlightener of the nations. But he said, "Imitate me, as I imitate Christ" ( 1 Cor 4:16, cf. Phil 3:17). And here is the question: should we all become Apostles and enlighten the nations? Sometimes this is understood as such - and the result is not inspiring. Because our apostle is different: we ourselves must become a witness to the grace of Christ: joyful, loving and friendly, devoid of envy, suspicion and malice.

It is not so simple and in general it is impossible for people. But not to God. Therefore, our “co-working” is to know the will of God about ourselves and to fulfill it. And this will is good.

If we return to the sad topic of the unauthorized abandonment of life, now the argument is very common that God gives a person life, and he has no right to stop it on his own. To be honest, this reasoning introduces into the relationship between God and man a moment that is no longer just legal, but downright commercial: you can’t break the rules of a deal.

Another thing is if you look at the problem from the point of view of a lively and kind attitude. God created man (given) for a purpose. He had a task for this man. And it is not good to evade this task. A person most often does not know about his task, so you need to follow the advice of Paul: always rejoice, pray without ceasing and give thanks in everything ( see 1 Thess 5:16-18). And so to know the will of God about yourself. And sometimes the Lord reveals to a person a fragment of His plan for him, and no other joy can be compared with this joy, because this is the fruit of cooperation and its comprehension.

And there is one more reason not to fold your paws, not to wave your hand at everything, not to go to the bottom, and even more so - not to jump off on the go. The Lord wants everyone to be saved and He Himself takes into His Kingdom those whom He saves. The rules of a virtuous life are well known, but it is also well known that there is no person who has not sinned.

I always feel very sorry for those people who are killed because they still have not parted with their sins. I would like to sincerely wish them to listen to the Sunday hymn according to the Gospel: "... let us worship the holy Lord Jesus, the only sinless one." It is not for imaginary sinlessness that Christ justifies people (again, not in the legal sense, but in the sense of accepting the righteous into the host), but for their standing in the truth.

For an honest, sincere, ardent desire for Him. For the fact that a person listens to the word of God and, to the best of his ability, all in the hope of His help, tries to fulfill this word. In other words, it rises to itself, as they say, approaches the image in which it was conceived.

And this is a very long process and sometimes quite painful. And in order to go your life path in the right direction, you need sensitivity - and will.

Here, as in the case of the desire for death, traced back to the insidious Freud (although if you think calmly, nothing like that), we are faced with another conceptual cliché: the will to live. It seems that it was invented by Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, alien to us and to a certain extent hostile, and this concept is also being developed by figures, not to say Orthodox. So why give up on life?

I don't want to call it the will to live - it's not necessary, if only we firmly adhere to the understanding of what it was given to us for: to grow. Therefore, one must live stubbornly and diligently, if it is permissible to say so.

And if one tunes in to the will of God for life, then life—and the whole of God's world—appears so attractive that nothing decisively overshadows it. This does not mean that you need to turn a blind eye to the current outrages, far from it. But it is correct, “divinely” to treat them, without underestimating or exaggerating anything, is part of the task of man on earth.

... And something needs to be done with words so that they serve as a means of expressing thoughts and a means of communication, and not a stumbling block. Yes, I am very upset by this nuance. It is known that it is a divine-human organism. An organism is, by definition, alive and must be alive. So such a misfortune must happen that the term "living Church" was staked out by citizens who have no reason for it! History has put everything in its place: not a trace remains of them and of their artificial constructions. But we are afraid to say that our Church is alive. What can I say, we are afraid to think. How nice it would be if that fear went away! He will leave with time, of course, but for now let us take comfort in the fact that our sojourn in the Church shows us the fullness of life. And behold, Christ is born—and we are born of water and the Spirit. Christ is resurrected, and we receive abundant life from Him.

And there is nothing in the world that He cannot heal.