<Li> 1973 - The Tale of the Priest and of His Workman Balda, USSR, traditionally animated film by Inessa Kovalevskaya . </Li> <P> On October 5, 2006 Sophia Kishkovsky reported in The New York Times that "In the northern city of Syktyvkar, the State Theater of Opera and Ballet of the Republic of Komi, a region once notorious as a center of the prison camp system, or Gulag, recently bowderlized a commemorative performance of' The Tale of Priest and his Workman Balda'...after the local diocese objected to the portrayal of the priest in the work ." The resulting production was "reduced to a series of numbers..., none of which included the priest ." </P> <P> Conflict over similar matters had also arisen in Dnepropetrovsk Opera and Ballet Theatre on Christmas & New Year Season of 2006 / 2007 . Read about this in Russian at www.orthodoxy.org.ua . </P>

The tale of the priest and of his workman balda