Russian Orthodox Old Believers: Keeping their faith and fighting fires in the West Siberian Plain – The Washington Post

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Perspective | Russian Orthodox Old Believers: Keeping their faith and fighting fires in the West Siberian Plain

In the summer of 2016, photographer Emile Ducke traveled to an isolated community of “Old Believers” living in a remote Siberian village.

via Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2017/05/26/russian-orthodox-old-believers-keeping-their-faith-and-fighting-fires-in-the-west-siberian-plain/

In the summer of 2016, Emile Ducke traveled into the Siberian plain west of the Ural Mountains in search of a small enclave of Russians who still practice a 17th century version of Russian Orthodox Christianity. Here is what he found