Opening of the Fifth Seal. Fresco by Russian icon painters Gury Nikitin and Sila Savin (1680) in the west gallery (papert) of the Church of Elijah the Prophet in Yaroslavl, Russia. The souls of martyrs for the Word of God are depicted given white robes.

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