Meeting of M.S. Gorbachev with Patriarch Pimen

USSR. Moscow. April 29, 1988. Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Konstantin Mikhailovich Kharchev (second from left), General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev (third from left), Assistant for Ideology to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Ivan Timofeevich Frolov (fourth from left), Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen (second from right) and members of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church in the Catherine Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace during a meeting in connection with the 1000th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity in Rus'. Alexander Chumichev, Yuri Lizunov/TASS