On Memorial Day Monday each year, the annual Fort Ross chapel liturgy is held, followed with a procession to the cemetery, where a large Russian Orthodox cross marks the site of the settlement’s cemetery. One hundred thirty-one people were buried in the cemetery during the Russian-American Company’s thirty-year settlement. This year, May 29 was no exception and the lunch (trapeza) which was held at the Our Lady of Kazan Church at Russian River was sponsored in part by the Congress of Russian Americans. A group of parishioners from the Holy Ascension Church in Sacramento provided the delicious meal of traditional kavkaz shishlik and shurpa with various salads and pies for dessert. Archbishop Kyrill and Bishop Theodosy along with V.Rev. Paul Volmensky, V.Rev Alexander Krassovsky, Archdeacon Peter Karakozoff, Deacon Alexei Baranoff and other clergy and nearly 75 guests were in attendance.
CRA News and Events
This Memorial Day, we remember those heroes who courageously gave their lives.
CRA sponsored Russian Charity Ball in Los Angeles.
Annual Russian Charity Ball took place in Los Angeles on May 13, 2023. This year’s Ball was dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Russian Culture Museum-Archive in San Francisco. The funds raised during the Ball will be distributed between the museum and Russian Children Benevolent Society in Los Angeles.
History class presentation.
Members of CRA Los Angeles Chapter along with the Russian Los Angeles Research/Collective took part in presenting a presentation during a Russian history class at a parochial school in Los Angeles. School students currently studying history of the Civil war and evacuation from Crimea of the White Russian Army under the command of baron Wrangel. Members of the CRA Los Angeles chapter shared life stories of their parents who were part of that evacuation and students read poems written by poet Nikolai Touroverov.
Christ has Risen! Happy Easter!
Wishing all our members, families, friends and supporters a Happy Easter!
Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and Best Wishes to our members, families, friends and supporters!
Happy Thanksgiving!
Commemorative event of the 100 year anniversary of the Russian Far East Evacuation.
St. John Benevolent Fund Virtual Fundraiser Oct 1, 2022
CRA Scholarship & Youth conference.
Congress of Russian Americans (CRA), was a proud sponsor, along with the Russian American Women’s League (RAWL) of the recent week-long Orthodox Youth Conference 2022. With the blessing of Archbishop Kyrill of the Western American Diocese of the ROCOR church, the conference and camp was organized by V. Rev. Paul Volmensky of the Holy Ascension Church in Sacramento, CA the week of July 17 through 23 at the Russian River Orthodox church of Our Lady of Kazan in Guerneville, CA. Nestled amongst the California majestic redwoods and on the shores of the Russian River, named Ashokawna by the Southern Pomo Indians and renamed Slavyanka when the Russian American Company (RAC) came to Northern California in 1812 and established the settlement of Fort Ross. RAC established three ranches near Fort Ross, one of which, the Kostromitinov Ranch, stretched along the Russian River near the mouth of Willow Creek. The Russian River is the second-largest river (after the Sacramento River) flowing through the nine-county Greater San Francisco Bay Area. According to the USGS, variant names of the Russian River include Misallaako, Rio Ruso, Shabaikai, and Slavyanka.
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