The Bible In the Russian Parliament

It was not so long ago that Communism still held sway in Russia, and the Bible was banned almost everywhere. But times have certainly changed, and now the Russian govenment is sponsoring a Bible exhibit to remind them how scripture has molded Russian history.

The exhibition, ‘The Bible in Russia’, was held to mark a number of significant dates in the history of the Bible in Russia - the 950th anniversary of Ostromirov's Gospel, the oldest preserved manuscript in Russian, the 130th anniversary of the Synodal Bible, the first translation of the Bible into Russian, and the 50th anniversary of the first mass edition of the Bible in Russian, produced by the Russian Orthodox Church after the Communist revolution.
Politicians were able to learn of the ways in which the Bible has moulded and shaped Russia’s history and culture at the exhibition, jointly organised by the Bible Society in Russia, the Russian Orthodox Church Publishing Council and the Patriarchal Synodal Bible Commission.