5 facts about the Monomakh’s Cap, the ancient crown of Russian tsars
https://www.rbth.com/arts/330580-monomakh-cap-russia
A total of 9 tsars wore the crown, with Peter I putting an end to the custom
The first ruler crowned with the Monomakh Cap was Ivan the Terrible, Vasily III’s son. Ivan was also the first to be called a “tsar” – a caesar or emperor in Russian.
Art historian Viktoria Gerashhenko compares the royal robes of the Russian tsar with the design of a cathedral. With the Monomakh Cap putting the finishing touches on the robes, the parallels are quite clear and must have symbolized absolute power. It is just as well that a Holy Cross would adorn the hat, further symbolizing a power bestowed upon the wearer by God himself.
The hat then passed to Ivan’s son – Feodor, the last of the ancient Rurikid dynasty, followed by the tsars of the Time of Troubles epoch (Boris Godunov, Lzhedmitry I and Vasily Shuysky), and then, when the chaos ended, the first of the Romanovs: Mikhail Feodorovich and Aleksey Mikhailovich. The last of the Romanovs to wear the hat would be Ivan V, who later co-ruled with Peter the Great.
Peter himself, however, would have to make due with a replica (the two tsars co-ruled until Ivan’s death in 1696). Peter – who ended up subsequently declaring Russia an Empire – dispensed with the custom and swapped it for a more Western-style ritual. The Monomach’s Cap – which by then had adorned the heads of Russian rulers for 178 years – was then transferred to the Uspensky Cathedral at the Moscow Kremlin, and displayed at coronations as an “honorary symbol of the nobility of the tsar”.
I know the cross in the poster does not have the double cross, it's possible a "double cross" was not really something you want to promote in a picture where the Russian is standing next to "two allies". But the foot plate does signify the Orthodox religion. I was looking up Russian Orthodoxy to see if it flows directly from Greek Orthodoxy and I came to the article below. I knew about the split, but I didn't know what caused it.
The Great Schism of 1054 and the Split of Christianity
https://www.learnreligions.com/the-grea ... 54-4691893
Filioque Clause Controversy
The filioque clause controversy ignited one of the most critical arguments of the East-West Schism. This dispute centered around the Trinity doctrine and whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from God the Father alone or from both the Father and the Son.
Filioque is a Latin term meaning “and the son.” Originally, the Nicene Creed stated simply that the Holy Spirit “proceeds from the Father,” a phrase intended to defend the divinity of the Holy Spirit. The filioque clause was added to the creed by the Western Church to suggest that the Holy Spirit proceeds from both the Father “and the Son.”
The Eastern Church insisted on keeping the original wording of the Nicene Creed, leaving the filioque clause out. Leaders in the East argued loudly that the West had no right to alter the foundational creed of Christianity without consulting the Eastern Church. Furthermore, they felt the addition revealed underlying theological differences between the two branches and their understanding of the Trinity. The Eastern Church thought itself to be the only true and right one, believing Western theology to be based erroneously in Augustinian thinking, which they considered heterodox, which means unorthodox and verging on heretical.
Leaders on both sides refused to budge on the filioque issue. Eastern bishops began accusing the pope and bishops in the West of heresy. In the end, the two churches forbade the use of the other church’s rites and excommunicated one another from the true Christian church.
The image we are given, Moses anointing Aaron, tells us the Holy Spirit is poured out from the Father over the Son and then flows down onto His body, the Church. So I guess it is how one defines the word 'PROCEEDS'. The oil is not poured onto Aaron's body it is poured onto his head then runs onto his robe; the oil is not poured out by Aaron so he does not produce the oil. I can see why the Orthodox Church stood its ground, understand the reference you can navigate right meaning. If you don't, you will naturally fall into error with the Roman version. And that pretty much sums up the Trinity doctrine. If you understand the references individually you can come to a semi-valid conclusion that it is not wrong. Yet no one looking at it will leave with a correct understanding of God, because the point of their doctrine is to require a MAN-GOD, the Pope; and this BABYLONIAN nonsense flows through EVERYTHING they touch. Eg, by declaring the Earth moves around the Sun everything is then moving anti-clockwise and the Moon Phases become a mystery. Yep, MYSTERY BABYLON.
Oh look, how quaint, another brick in the wall of the New World Religion, the archbishop of Constantinople in Black, which might be his standard colours, but it shows subservience to the Pope.
From WIki
Interesting note at the end about the Orthodox Church of Ukraine given the Ukraine war. Checking what 'autocephaly' means, below, if there is any reality to the Ukrainian war, I'm fancying it is more likely to be because of the Russian Orthodox Church than anything else.Bartholomew's tenure has been characterized by intra-Orthodox cooperation, intra-Christian and inter-religious dialogue, and formal visits to Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, Orthodox and Muslim leaders seldom previously visited by an ecumenical patriarch. He has exchanged numerous invitations with church and state dignitaries. His efforts to promote religious freedom and human rights, his initiatives to advance religious tolerance among the world's religions, as well as his efforts to promote ecology and the protection of the environment, have been widely noted, and these endeavors have earned him the title "The Green Patriarch". Among his many international positions, he currently sits on the Board of World Religious Leaders for the Elijah Interfaith Institute. In 2018 the Moscow Patriarchate broke communion with the Ecumenical Patriarchate as a result of disputes over his decision to grant autocephaly to the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
Autocephaly (/ɔːtəˈsɛfəli/; from Greek: αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop. The term is primarily used in Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches. The status has been compared with that of the churches (provinces) within the Anglican Communion.