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Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl

Christ Pantocrator in the Church of St John the Baptist in Tolchkovo, Yaroslavl. Frescoes of the 1690s by the artel of Dmitry Plekhanov and Fyodor Ignatyev Photograph of the 1940s

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Andrei Voznesensky in one of the churches of the city of Murom in 1982

Photo by Georgy Rozov

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One could speak of the antiquities of Bulgaria at length: the oldest worked gold in the world, the oldest solar calendar in Europe in the Magura Cave, Europe's largest Neolithic necropolis at Durankulak with the oldest stone building on the continent…

And now, near the village of Člebi in the Nymburk District of Central Bohemia, archaeologists from the University of West Bohemia have unearthed a monumental structure more than 6,500 years old, identified as one of the oldest ritual centres in Central Europe. The building is an almost circular enclosure

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The Domes of the Dormition Cathedral

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Who Is the Lord for Me?

Who is the Lord for me? Do I truly know Him? What does His Gospel demand of me today? What steps must I take? Pope Leo XIV turned to the Gospel reading in which Christ asks His disciples who they say that He is. The question is put to people

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“The Descent into Hell”, a medieval stone sculpture from the parish church of Saint-Symphorien, at an exhibition in the Fenaille Museum in Rodez, France

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Mordvin Pilgrim Women at the Ponetayevka Convent for Women in 1904

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Summoning sorcerers to work spells to a man's harm is equated by the Nomocanon with murder

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On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds

On the Feast of the Apple Saviour we not only have the fruit blessed in church and prepare treats from apples, but also do charitable deeds. In keeping with old Russian tradition

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The Church of the Transfiguration, a 37-metre wooden church of 1714 on Kizhi Island in Karelia

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The People of Kostroma Greet the Imperial Family in May 1913

In the 23 years of his reign Nicholas II did not travel much about Russia, Crimea, Finland and the hunting at Spała excepted. His meetings with the people were few. The celebration of the tercentenary of the ruling house was the exception. But what was planned for 1913 was not

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