 Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] In the Western Military District, an official investigation has begun in connection with the participation of a company of the guard of honor in the church wedding ceremony of Georgy Romanov and Rebecca (Victoria) Bettarini , which took place on October 1 at St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg. IA REGNUM was informed about this on October 4 in the press service of the Western Military District.
In response to questions posed in this regard, the district press service offered to send an official request from the editorial board, which will be done by the agency.
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In turn, the military commandant's office of St. Petersburg, in the operational subordination of which is the company of the guard of honor, declined to comment. At the same time, according to available data, the military commandant of the city, Colonel Ramil Volkov, is currently on vacation outside St. Petersburg.
Note that during the wedding ceremony, the active servicemen were inside the church, standing at attention. Against their background, guests of the ceremony, especially foreign ones, were happy to take pictures.
And at the end of the wedding, servicemen in full dress greeted the newlyweds, saluting them on the porch of the cathedral with bare sabers.
The participation of military personnel in the private ceremony prompted many negative comments on social media and questions about the legality of such participation.
"And how long ago did the PKK (a company of the guard of honor) start working as "call boys" at parties of all kinds of political crooks? Or is it such a fashion now? Or did someone pay someone well for this sword dance?" wrote military journalist Vladislav Shurygin on his Facebook page.
According to the press service of the Western Military District, a separate rifle company of the guard of honor provides rituals of meeting and seeing off official state, government and military delegations, garrison and citywide events with the participation of troops in St. Petersburg and the North-West region of the country.
And then there's this: (Editorial)
by Plato Besedin
Tsarist vulgarity: the wedding of the Romanovs as an indicator and a sentence
[REGNUM] Crimson jackets are a thing of the past as a type of clothing, but not as a conceptual phenomenon. For many, it still sits inside, in the very core; and rooting it out is a very difficult task. The wedding of the Romanovs in this context is an indicator of how deeply our society has sunk in ringing vulgarity.
In recent days, my social media feed has been packed, and is still jammed, in fact with discussion, photos of the wedding. Yes, yes, that one. There were so many and lurid wedding retrospectives that it really reminded of the last days.
Prince Georgy Mikhailovich Romanov (let's call him that, not without humor) got married to his Italian wife Rebecca Bettarini. It was reported that for the sake of such a cause, Rebecca ceased to be a Catholic, and converted to Orthodoxy. It was also reported - it was positioned, more precisely - that this is the first wedding of the Romanovs in Russia in as much as 120 years.
Oh well.
Most of this action was furiously indignant. But, of course, there were those who said the following: they say, who cares about such celebrations? Even so, maybe, it was necessary to keep silent, but how can you stay indifferent, how can you refrain from sarcasm, looking at something in the spirit of Robbie Williams' cheap video "Party like Russians", but if it were shot by the director of third-rate Russian TV series?
After all, someone gave these gentlemen and ladies of "royal blood" St. Isaac's Cathedral for the wedding. And then, by the way, there was a luxurious buffet in the Ethnographic Museum. Someone singled out the guardsmen of the Preobrazhensky Regiment as a guard of honor for these ladies and gentlemen. And the silk dress with the coat of arms dragging across the strange floor? And what about the brutal furs on the dresses? And the arrogant faces? And the ostrich scale of all this action? Wow!
In general, the photographs from the Romanovs' celebration are above all amazing and repulsive, no doubt. You think: well, how is it that people dressed up as ladies and gentlemen allow themselves this? Do they really not understand how ridiculous and vulgar it all looks? But they really don't understand. How can you not be amazed? There is a lot of vulgarity around, too much philistine vulgarity, but this is rarely seen, even on the federal channel in prime time.
Something has turned out to be wrong, since people who position themselves as members of the royal family allow themselves to flaunt vulgarity as a method, and at the same time, in fact, partly devalue those to whose blood and titles they are so diligently attached. And he craves, as if to cry out to Marmeladov: "It's stuffy to me, stuffy!" From all this absurdity that threatens to drown any manifestation of a sense of proportion and taste in the scenery of a freak show.
It is no secret that there are many sympathizers of the tragedy of the Romanov dynasty. And this is more than normal, at least if you are guided by mercy. However, it is strange, if not wildly so. To observe, again, a lot of those who exist in an alternative reality are in a kind of tsarist Russia. And those in these illusions are regularly supported by restorers of such an eerie reality. They support them through books, programs, films, etc.
It seems, you must agree, to the role-playing games of the Tolkienists: sometimes serious people dress up in costumes of elves and gnomes - it was once fashionable; trouble begins where all this is perceived and taken seriously, the problem is hidden where it directly concerns statehood. Exactly the same, by the way, applies to especially zealous adherents of the "red".
The restoration of the past has already turned into something like a folk amusement. On the one hand, a rod with banners and tsarist faces, on the other, with five-pointed stars and portraits of Stalin. Just, excuse me, what does this have to do with the present? After all, it is impossible to revive the corpses of the past without loss. I would even say so without colossal, critical losses. It is only possible - and necessary - to try to draw the right conclusions, which would allow not to shake over the past.
And so, unfortunately, it strongly resembles the shaking of an empty barrel, ringing in response with hysterical vulgarity so that it feels bad in the head. How many times have we seen this? And how much more will we see? And here, of course, you should not perceive the wedding of the Romanovs as something outrageous, as detached from reality as possible. No, friends, comrades, this is flesh of the flesh, as they say, of the system that boasts luridness in the style of "expensive and rich."
Yes, crimson jackets are a thing of the past as a type of clothing, but not as a semantic phenomenon. For many, it still sits inside, in the very core; and rooting it out is a very difficult task. The wedding of the Romanovs in this context is an indicator of how deeply our society has sunk in ringing vulgarity.
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