Everything or so has already been written about the Martha and Mary (Marfo-Mariinsky) Convent of Mercy founded in 1909 by a sorrowed Grand Duchess of the reigning house of Romanov Elizabeth Feodorovna following the assassination of her husband, Prince Sergei Alexandrovich, on Senatskaya Square, Moscow, on 17 February 1905, by a terrorist, Ivan Kalyayev, member of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party, later hanged on 23 May 1905, who threw a nitroglycerin bomb directly into Prince Sergei's lap.
But these photos were foremost taken with a quest for something higher than ourselves and beyond historical events. One thing strikes our mind once one leaves this place.
This is something that only became apparent the day following our first visit, when it had just snowed during the night and a long white coat covered the branches of the trees, the ground, the roofs: man-made constructions seem lifeless during the winter, and they would almost give an idea of what an eternity could be like without God in an entropic universe condemned to itself, to its own solitude, if this face, the face of Christ, would not exist, this face that opens one’s eyes onto our final destination beyond all deadlocks, into the realm of eternal victorious life.
