Meeting of M.S. Gorbachev with Patriarch Pimen

USSR. Moscow. April 29, 1988. Assistant for ideology to the General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Ivan Timofeevich Frolov, Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the USSR Council of Ministers Konstantin Mikhailovich Kharchev, General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev and Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen (left to right in the foreground) in the Kremlin during a meeting in connection with the 1000th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity in Rus'. Alexander Sentsov/TASS