Believers gather at the Optina Pustyn monastery during a funeral service for Schema-Archimandrite Iliy, the spiritual father of the monastery's brotherhood and of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, in Kaluga region, Russia. Elder Iliy (Alexei Nozdrin) died on March 15, 2025 at the age of 93.
- Categories: Religion & Belief, Human Interest
- Location: Kaluga region, Russia
- Event date: 18.03.2025
- Date published: 18.03.2025
- Author: Maksim Blinov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 8256x5504px, 17.4Mb
- Job-ID: 7fa5b7052f1fe70e