Knights and tsar

Knights and the tsar Kak crusaders reached from Jerusalem Gatchina, and the Cossack army almost froze on the way to India 12 (on new style — 23) October, 1799 to the residence of the emperor Pavel I in Gatchina sacred relics were delivered: particle of the Lord's Life-giving Cross, Filermsky icon of the Mother of God and right hand Ierusalimsky Ioann Baptist. The shrines which have been solemnly brought in church of the Gatchina palace by several people, which clothes were decorated by a white eight-pointed cross against a dark background, were delivered from the far Mediterranean island Malta. In a year before, to 1798th, Malta borrowed...