Celebration of the 1000th Anniversary of the Baptism of Rus in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Metropolitan of Kiev and Galicia Filaret (Mikhail Antonovich Denisenko), Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen (Sergei Mikhailovich Izvekov) (from left to right in the foreground), Catholicos of All Armenians Vazgen I (Levon Abramovich Palchyan) (in the center in the background), Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Ilia II (Irakli Georgievich Gudushauri-Shiolashvili) (second from right in the background) in the presidium during a ceremonial meeting dedicated to the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus. Alexander Sentsov/TASS