Grigory Potemkin is still a legendary figure today: Russian commander, conqueror and lover of Catherine the Great. Now Putin had his bones stolen from a church in Kherson. A visit to the crime scene.
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Tomas Avenarius, Cherson
Singing and murmuring float in the room, candles flicker, the frames and fittings of the icons shimmer silver. The Blessed Mother Mary and all the other saints look humbly and longingly up to heaven. Behind the lattice wall to the holy of holies, the priests and monks sing and pray their pious litanies. In front of her, the faithful cross themselves, fall on their knees, press their foreheads against the ground.