Sister Varvara, a nun picking appels in the orchard of a nunnery

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Sister Varvara picking apples in the orchard She is one of the oldest nuns at age 32 and comes from a coal mining village in Eastern Siberia She visited the nunnery ten years ago and never left "When my father heard that I had walked into the nunnery and never walked out he flew into a terrible rage He was shaking all over You would have thought he had come to my funeral It was the same with my friends If they came to see me it was to mourn my passing" August 2002 Novo Golutvin Convent in Kolomna seventy miles South East of Moscow Russia

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Size: 5244px × 3492px
Location: Kolomna, Russia
Photo credit: © Nikolai Ignatiev / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: apple, convent, fruit, kolomna, monastery, novo-golutvin, nun, nunnery, orchard, religion, russia, russianorthodoxy, tree, woman