Moscow, Russia. 8th May, 2022. Believers take part of the cross procession around the churches of Rogozhskaya Old-Rite Sloboda during the feast of the Holy Myrrhbearers in Moscow, Russia. The Old Believers are a dissident community of Russian christians who refused to adapt to the modernisation efforts of Tzar Peter the Great in 1741 which led to a schism from the Russian Orthodox church

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