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– G.S. Chistyakov Following the church schism of the 17th century, the traditions of Old Believers and New Ritualists gradually diverged, growing further apart over time. Over 350 years, numerous differences accumulated in theology, liturgy, church singing, iconography, hagiography, and everyday customs. However, surprisingly, some church practices remain unchanged across all branches of Old Belief…
–Gleb Chistyakov At the outset of my presentation, I would like to turn to the relatively recent past—the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was, without exaggeration, a romantic time when many believed that a truly free and genuinely equal society was just around the corner. Terms such as people’s power, pluralism, multiparty system, freedom…
By Gleb Chistyakov “Кто курит табак, тот хуже собак” “Whoever smokes tobacco, is worse than dogs” The fight against tobacco smoking and its devastating health consequences, which has unfolded in recent decades in the USA, Europe, and more recently in Russia, actually has much deeper roots in our country. Impartial evidence from historical sources indicates…
The question of faith—whom to believe in, how to pray correctly, and how to glorify God—was one of the central issues following the schism in the Russian Church in the 17th century. While the ritual differences between Old Believers and New Ritualists have been thoroughly studied in both polemical and scholarly literature, questions of dogmatic…