Moscow, Russia. 30th of April, 2023. Old believers attend the procession as the part of the service of the Sunday of the Holy Myrrhbearers in the churches of Rogozhskaya old believers' 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. There are about half a million members of the Old Believers' community in Russia, according to the Patriarchate of the mainstream Orthodox Church

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