Feodosia Morozova
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Feodosia Prokopiyevna Morozova was a Russian noblewoman and one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
Boyaryna Morozova by Vasily Surikov is depicting Morozova's arrest by the Nikonites in 1671. As an Old Believer, she holds two fingers, rather than three, raised in the old way of making the sign of the cross.
A chapel constructed on the supposed site of Morozova's death
Borovsk
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Borovsk is a town and the administrative center of Borovsky District of Kaluga Oblast, Russia, located on the Protva River just south from the oblast's border with Moscow Oblast. Population: 12,598; 1
Feodosia Morozova
…burned at the stake, but was dissuaded. Instead, she and the others were incarcerated in an underground cellar of the St. Paphnutius Monastery at Borovsk, where they endured considerable deprivations. After the appointment of a new Patriarch, Ioakim in 1674, they were deprived of all support and slowly…
View of Borovsk
Borovsk Monastery of St. Paphnutius
The Monastery today
G.Quarenghi Views of Moscow and its Environs New Jerusalem 1797