Meeting of M.S. Gorbachev with Patriarch Pimen

USSR. Moscow. April 29, 1988. General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Pimen (from left to right in the foreground), Metropolitan of Leningrad and Novgorod Alexy and Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Council of Ministers of the USSR Konstantin Mikhailovich Kharchev (from right to left in the background) in the Kremlin during a meeting in connection with the 1000th anniversary of the introduction of Christianity in Rus'. Vladimir Musaelyan/TASS