Vladimir Lapshin

Fr.Vladimir Lapshin is the dean of the Church in the center of Moscow on Tverskaya Str. Here on the picture he is during the Christmas Liturgy in 2002. He is a former geologist, converted in Christianity in 1980-s, became the friend of Fr. Alexander Menn. His parish is one of the few of those innumerous Moscow parishes where You are guaranteed from meeting anti-Westerners, anti-Semitic, Nationalists. The parish is in the center of the city so it is always besieged by beggars and has a