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-Dimitry Urushev In rare books on 18th-century Russian literature, one seldom encounters the name of Simeon Denisov. Among the “enlightened men” like the poets Kantemir, Sumarokov, or Kheraskov, who sang in a European style of “the heart’s bitter sorrows,” there is little room for a northern hermit who, in an ancient style, recounted not “the…
On March 3, the website Russkaya Vera published a report by the Old Believer historian Yuri Isaev titled Old Belief and the Traditions of Popular Rule. In it, the author analyzes the history of the Old Believer movement and highlights its distinctive populist, grassroots traditions. Isaev argues that the Old Believer protest, in addition to…
A public figure and prominent leader of the Old Believer movement at the beginning of the 20th century, Nikifor Dmitrievich Zenin was a Russian photographer, documentarian, artist, and owner of a photography studio. He also distinguished himself as a reporter, writer, journalist, publicist, and apologist for Old Belief. The multifaceted nature of N.D. Zenin’s personality…
By Nikifor Zenin On October 27 at 1:30 in the afternoon, Bishop Kir Mikhail, Old Believer Bishop of Canada, passed away in the hospital at the Rogozhskoye Cemetery. The ways of God are unsearchable. Something difficult to foresee — or even miraculous, though sorrowful — led Bishop Kir Mikhail to die in the chief center…