Day of the Slavic Literature and Culture. A crucession with the miracle-working Fyodor Icon of the Mother of God.01.07.1996#452300
The Kazan Federal Cathedral (The Cathedral of Kazan Mother of God) built in 1801-1811 by architect Andrei Voronikhin. The cathedral was inactive between 1932 and 1991 and was home to the Religion and Atheism History Museum of the USSR Academy of Sciences.15.07.1991#6609797
A ceremony to transfer the shrine containing the relics of St. Seraphim of Sarov from the vaults of the Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism of the USSR Academy of Sciences (now the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg) to the Russian Orthodox Church. Museum Director Stanislav Kuchinsky, fourth left, and Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II, center, during the ceremony to transfer the relics to the Seraphim-Diveyevo Convent.11.01.1991#6687439
The Tolga Convent of the Presentation of Virgin Mary, one of the oldest convents and monasteries in the Yaroslavl Region, was founded in 1314 after the finding of the Icon of Virgin Mary of Tolga. The convent was shut down during the Soviet period. The first Russian convent opened in the autumn of 1988 following the long-time persecution of believers. The convent was restored under the guidance of Mother Superior Varvara (Tretyak). This old postcard, property of philocartist (postcard collector) Yury Mazurov, shows the Tolga Convent before the revolution.25.09.1990#8454387
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church residence in Moscow. Photo: The Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God.01.06.1988#8355727
The Bulgarian Orthodox Church residence in Moscow. Photo: The Icon of the Three-Handed Mother of God at the Church of the Dormition of the Most Holy Mother of God.01.06.1988#8355726
The Cathedral of the Icon of Our Lady of Kazan in Luga city in the Leningrad Region.26.07.1966#6126442
