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Konstantin Gološanov, former leader of the ‘Athos fraternity’ that brought together the oligarchs-VIPs, is back in vogue in Moscow. Having gone out of the scene with the start of the conflicts with Ukraine , today he is once again trying to show through sacred art that Russia is the ‘true Europe’.
The 69-year-old Gološanov was known as ‘Putin's masseur’, and still demonstrates remarkable physical efficiency, combining his sporting qualities with the ‘orthodox oligarch’ activities that have linked him to Putin since well before he became president. The massage years were also those of Putin's and his comrades' conversion to Orthodoxy, in a link between faith and judo that is often hinted at in biographies of the president, without clarifying the hidden dimensions of this mystical union.
A particular adventure was the attempt to buy the Bari football team in Italy, which also allowed him to organise pilgrimages of high society Russians to the shrine of St Nicholas, in a new union of sport and religion, even bringing fragments of the relics of Russia's patron saint to St Petersburg. This began the period of the great ‘sanctification’ of Russia, which was rediscovering its monastic origins, thanks to the efforts of the president and his followers, even more so than those of the patriarch and his metropolitans, but which came to an abrupt end in 2014, with the beginning of the conflicts with Ukraine until 2018, the year of the Orthodox schism with Kiev and Constantinople.
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