Celebrating the 1000th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus

USSR. Moscow. June 10, 1988. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen (fifth from the right in the first row), wife of the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee M.S. Gorbachev Raisa Maksimovna (fourth from the left in the first row), government and party officials and representatives of the highest clergy in the presidium during a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the millennium of the Baptism of Rus, at the State Academic Bolshoi Theater of the USSR. Alexander Sentsov/TASS