From the history of the Russian Orthodox Church (1913-1944)

Metropolitan during a festive church service.

Praying parishioners.

People in the church kiss the icons.

A note in a Ukrainian nationalist newspaper about a service in the Uniate Church of St.

George.

Photographs of a Uniate religious procession.

A ceremonial procession with the participation of representatives of the highest Orthodox clergy, Emperor Nicholas II with his wife and court officials in the Moscow Kremlin during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of the House of Romanov in 1913. A mother sees her son off to the front in 1943. Smoking ruins of a church.

Photographs of regimental prayers in the Russian Imperial Army.

Photographs of Nicholas II and members of the Imperial Family in Livadia.

German recruits during a regimental mass, the chaplain blesses them.

Photographs of prayers and religious processions during the First World War.

View of a wooden rural church.

Faces of parishioners.

View of the courtroom during the trial of accomplices of the Nazi occupiers in 1943. An Orthodox priest gives testimony, a panorama of the dock.

Faces of the clergy sitting in the courtroom.

Military personnel and clergy in the courtroom observe the progress of the trial of traitors to the Motherland.

A panorama of the dock.

Pouring grain from palm to palm.

The face of a clergyman delivering a sermon in 1922. Women listen to the priest, crossing themselves.

Orthodox nuns lead wounded Soviet soldiers through the monastery grounds.

The nuns examine the wounded and talk to them.

The nuns lead the wounded by the arms past the church.

A unit of the Red Army passes along the street of the liberated city in 1943-1944. The priest, standing on the steps of the church with a cross in his hands, blesses the passing Soviet soldiers.

Red Army rifle units march through the streets of one of the southern cities of the USSR. A priest conducts a memorial service for the victims of Nazi terror in the open air.

A woman adjusts a burnt corpse in a coffin.

Faces of elderly women praying.

A coffin with the burnt bodies of victims of the Nazi invaders, a priest conducts a memorial service.

Armed policemen lead arrested priests under escort in the early 1920s.

Parishioners stand at the entrance to the church on Easter, enter the doors of the church in the second half of the 1940s.

People leave the church with blessed Easter cakes, walk down the street.