Old Believers
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Old Believers or Old Ritualists is the common term for numerous religious communities that maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church, as they were before the refo
A leaflet from the Morozov Apocalypse, a Pomorian manuscript from circa 1820 commissioned by the prominent Morozov family, depicting a scene from Book of Revelation.
Members of the Pomorian accord, 19th century.
Old Believer women in Tarbagatay, Buryatia.
Patriarch Nikon and Tsar Alexis ordering the revision of liturgy. A painting by Aleksey Kivshenko.
Russian Orthodox Church
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The Russian Orthodox Church, also officially known as the Moscow Patriarchate, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian church. It has 194 dioceses inside Russia. The primate of the ROC is the P
Old Believers
…or старообрядцы, staroobryadtsy) is the common term for numerous religious communities that maintain the old liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church, as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1653 and 1656. The old rite and its followers were anathematized in 1667, and Old…
Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, Russia
Russian Orthodox monks defended the Trinity monastery against Polish troops during the Time of Troubles. Painting by Sergey Miloradovich.
An Old Believer Priest, Nikita Pustosviat, Disputing the Matters of Faith with Patriarch Joachim, painting by Vasily Perov
St. Sophia-Assumption Cathedral in Tobolsk