Members of the Orthodox clergy pay their respects next to a coffin of Schema-Archimandrite Iliy, the spiritual father of the monastery's brotherhood and of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, during a funeral service at the Optina Pustyn monastery 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, 25.9Mb
- Job-ID: 396062eac7cc9f42