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For me, Christ is absolutely real. Sergei Bruntranslated

October 4, 2026 · 1 min read

Why shouldn't we evaluate history—shouldn't we study it? How can a museum compete with a smartphone? How does a love for Russian history develop in someone who grew up in America? And why do we study the past at all?

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"Parsona" — an original program on the "SOS" channel, featuring Vladimir Legoida, the chairman of the Synodal Department for Church Relations with Society and the Media, and the editor-in-chief of the "Foma" journal.

Greetings, dear friends. We continue to write "parsons" about our contemporaries. And today our guest is Sergei Brun. Sergei Pavlovich…

Vladimir Romanovich, greetings.

…greetings.

Thank you for the invitation.

Thank you for coming, I am very glad to see you. In the prologue, there is one question, it always comes up. And today I formulate it this way: how do you answer the question of who you are, here, now, and today?

Sergei Brun

Historian, museum employee, curator of exhibition projects, publicist, radio host. Since 2023, he is the general director of the Novgorod State United Museum-Reserve.

Unprepared, perhaps: a spontaneous Novgorodite.

Is this your self-perception, as they say, in the moment?

In the stretched out, in the pleasant…

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