| Summary: | After the 1905 revolution, in the Russian Empire a forced public administration reform took place. The episcopate, the monasticism, the clergy, professors of religious schools and the laity of the Russian Orthodox Church hoped that the State power, in the person of the Emperor, would finally agree to reform the Church management. But the ideas of the episcopate concerning the Church reform, which were collected in whole volumes of books, nor the huge theoretical work that was carried out at the meetings with Presence of people before assembly in 1905-1906, did not change the decision of the last emperor of the Russian Empire, Nicholas II, regarding convening the Local Council and Patriarch election for a Church free from the public authorities. All this was possible only after the fall of the autocracy, but also, a decade was lost for which a revived, renewed and rebuilt Church would have the opportunity to prepare itself for the battle against the most terrible enemy in the history of the Orthodox Church: the Soviet power, i.e.: a godless communist dictatorship.
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