Antireligious activities in Soviet Russia (1919-1929)

Anti-religious night procession with torches in Moscow on Christmas eve 1929.

View of one of the Moscow Orthodox churches.

Spinning wheel with fireworks over the large crowd of people.

People listen to the radio, trumpet loudspeaker on the pole.

People gather near the stage before the anti-religious views.

Actors perform on the stage, faces the audience.

The face of one of the actors in makeup.

Sailors dancing on the stage before the audience.

People skate on the rink the night, a General view of the rink.

View of the Trinity-Sergius monastery in March 1919 (above).

View of the square filled with people awaiting the opening of the relics of St.

Sergius of Radonezh (above).

The priests and parishioners walk past an open Shrine with relics attached to them.

Are members of the Committee for the opening of the relics.

Interior view of the temple.

The Committee members are held to the entrance of the temple.

Going to the temple representatives of the Executive Committee and the nearest townships, hourly checks pass.

Hieromonk Jonah is beginning an autopsy of the relics, removes the veils that people in the area in anticipation of the opening.

The extraction of the relics from the Shrine.

Commission member Dr.

Popov examines the power.

Power in the hands of hieromonk Jonah.

Skull in the hands of the Ions.

The people in the square waiting for the announcement of the results of the autopsy of the relics, the relics uncovered in cancer.