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The personality and activity of the outstanding Church and public figure of the Synodal period and the largest Russian Orthodox theologian of the XIX century, Metropolitan Filaret of Moscow and Kolomna (in the world-Vasily Mikhailovich Drozdov, 1782-1867) attracted the attention of pre-revolutionary researchers. The purpose of this article is to try to present the image of Filaret as it was formed in the view of his contemporaries both people.

During World War II, representatives of almost all the Soviet Republics fought in partisan detachments in the occupied territory of the Leningrad Region. Among them were many representatives of the Central Asian republics: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. Many Leningrad citizens, including relatives of partisans, had been evacuated to Central Asia by that time. However, representatives of Asian workers' collectives came to meet with the partisans. The huge distance, the difference in cultures and even completely different weather conditions did not become an obstacle to those patriots-Turkestanis who joined the resistance forces in the North-West of Russia.