Thank you for everything you have done for Serbia

BELGRADE – Today, President Aleksandar Vučić presented the Order of the Serbian Flag of the first degree to Russian artist Nikolaj Mukhin, whom he decorated for the mosaic decoration of the Temple of Saint Sava and for special merits in the development of relations between Serbia and Serbia. Russia.

The president presented Muhina with the decoration on the occasion of the commemoration of the Reconciliation Day in the First World War, on November 11, and presented the medal to him today at a ceremony in the Andrićev venac building, according to all measures epidemiological.

Vučić expressed his great gratitude to Muhin for all he did for Serbia.

“Usually when politicians talk about it, they either exaggerate, or they do it themselves. You have done something for our country that I have not seen anywhere in the world, which leaves a trace of your work, of your hands. People admire the beauty of our temple and without knowing how much effort, discipline and work it took for that beauty, “said Vučić.

The president added that he “knows something” about how hard that work was, how many years it took, as well as the almost superhuman efforts to make the most beautiful temple in the world.

Vučić also said that he had traveled half the world, but had never seen the inside of a temple made and arranged in this way.

“Only you, with your dedication and discipline, were able to succeed, but you also added love for Serbia, which you love the most right after Russia. I am very grateful to you for that. By receiving this order, you have one more obligation, and that is, “Because now you have your first homeland, Russia, and your second Serbia, to take care of us, and we will always be grateful to you,” the president told the Russian academic.

Vučić recalled that Muhin had the opportunity to do most of the work during the time of the late Patriarch Irinej, a man who, he notes, had a vision, that he was an “ordinary and good Serbian” and who cared for the Serbian people and what would be left behind. the.

“Thanks to you two, we have a magnificent temple, but also the best relations between Serbia and Russia. I think I can only be better in my heart. I who don’t visit church every day, what Bishop Stefan would tell me, and the patriarch would say that we should go, I come to the temple of San Sava, I stop and look and I do not go out. This is our new Hagia Sophia from the entire Orthodox world, “emphasized the President of Serbia.

Vučić said that Muhin deserved greater gratitude from the Serbian people and the state, adding that this recognition is a small way of saying that we will never forget his work and what he did for the Serbian people.

Mukhin is a member of the Russian Academy of Arts and principal director of painting for the Temple of St. Sava in Vracar, and he gained worldwide recognition by working on frescoes in the Temple of Christ the Savior in Moscow, for which he received recognition from the Church. Russian Orthodox.

Russian Ambassador Alexander Bocan-Kharchenko and President Nikola Selakovic’s Secretary General also attended the presentation of the Order.

(Kurir.rs/Tanjug)

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