Festive services in the Russian Orthodox Church (1985-1989)

Parishioners on the monastery grounds during the reburial of the relics of one of the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church, a view of part of the monastery square.

The face of the Savior on an icon.

Parishioners in the church during a solemn service on the occasion of the reburial of the relics, an interior view of the church.

Faces of women holding burning candles in their hands during a requiem, crossing themselves.

The face of a clergyman performing an anointing with consecrated oil, a brush with oil in the hand of the clergyman.

Applying consecrated oil to the faces and hands of parishioners with a brush.

The face of the Savior on an icon.

Faces of women during a requiem.

Sprinkling incense on the coffin from a shovel.

A memorial note with the names of the deceased on the table among prosphora and Easter cakes, church candles are burning.

A clergyman serves a requiem.

Faces of parishioners praying and crossing themselves.

Exit from the altar of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen.

Festive service in the church, a girl lights a candle.

Pimen fumigates the worshipers with a censer, the faces of the parishioners, children and adults.