About the Marfo-Mariinsky (Marfo-Mariinsky) Monastery of Mercy, founded in 1909 by the grieving Grand Duchess of the reigning house of Romanov, Elizaveta Feodorovna, after the murder of her husband, Prince Sergei Alexandrovich, on Senate Square, everything or so has already been written. , Moscow, February 17, 1905, by terrorist Ivan Kalyaev, a member of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, later hanged on May 23, 1905, who threw a nitroglycerin bomb directly into the lap of Prince Sergei.

But these photographs were taken primarily with a search for something higher than ourselves, and beyond historical events. One thing comes to our mind as we leave this place.

This only became apparent the day after our first visit, when snow had just fallen during the night and a long white blanket covered the tree branches, the ground, the roofs: man-made structures seem lifeless in winter, and they would almost give an idea of what eternity might be like without God in an entropic universe doomed to itself, to its loneliness, if this face did not exist, the face of Christ, this face opening our eyes to our final destination beyond all dead ends, to the realm of eternal victorious life.