Maryna Zwihun

Maryna Zwihun ( Ukrainian Марина Цвігун , Russian Марина Викторовна Цвигун / Marina Viktorovna Zwigun , born Maryna Mamonowa , Марина Мамонова, religious name Mary Virgin Christ , Ukrainian Марія Деві Христос / Marija Dewi Chrystos , Russian Мария Дэви Христос ; * 1960 , Stalino , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) is a Ukrainian journalist and former religious leader of the White Brotherhood Movement in Ukraine.

Life

Maryna Mamonowa studied journalism at the State University in Kiev . She then worked in the district committee of the Komsomol Youth Union in Dnepropetrovsk , then as a journalist in a regional newspaper. She was a member of the Union of Journalists of the USSR and the CPSU . Later she worked for the radio program in a factory in Donetsk. In 1989 she became a member of a district assembly in Donetsk.

In 1990 she was clinically dead for about three hours after an abortion. She had a religious experience in this state. Soon afterwards she met Yuri Krywonohow at one of his esoteric lectures. He founded the White Brotherhood movement with her and introduced her to his followers as a divine incarnation with the name of Mary the Virgin Christ . Both married. The movement spread very quickly in many cities in the Soviet Union.

In 1992, an investigation was initiated against both of them for illegal land grabbing, illegal house building and fraud. She then went to Bulgaria with some followers, and later to Poland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia. In the spring of 1993 she presented a book in Moscow . In September 1993 she returned to Kiev and occupied the St. Sophia Cathedral with Yuri Krywonohow and other supporters for a prayer in order to prepare for the impending end of the world on November 24th. They were arrested.

In 1994 she renounced Yuri Krywonohow's custody as leader of the White Brotherhood and called him Judas , who had betrayed the movement. In 1996 she was sentenced to four years in a labor camp.

In 1997 she was released. She returned to Donetsk and married Vitaly Kovalchuk, Krywonohow's deputy. They tried to rebuild the movement. Several applications for re-registration as a religious organization in Kiev failed. In 2006 she went to Moscow , where she was active as Viktoria Preobrazhenskaya with painting, religious music and a theater. In 2013 she again promoted the White Brotherhood in Kiev.

literature

• Дворкин, Александр Леонидович: Белое братство . In: Сектоведение. Тоталитарные секты. Опыт систематического исследования . Нижний Новгород 2006, ISBN 5-88213-050-6 , pp. 633–643

Web links

• The "living God" is in prison , 1996 (German)
• Марина Цвигун Люди (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ В Киев вернулась скандальная секта «белое братство» , 2015 (Russian)