An elderly Russian woman wearing traditional sarafan dress feeding chicken in Sibirjachiha village which its members preserve the Old Believers customs with foundations dating back hundreds of years in Soloneshenskiy district in Altai Krai a region in Western Siberia, Russia. The Old Believers or Old Ritualists are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666. Resisting the accommodation of Russian piety to the contemporary forms of Greek Orthodox worship,

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Eddie Gerald / Alamy Stock Photo

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4896 x 3264 px | 41.5 x 27.6 cm | 16.3 x 10.9 inches | 300dpi

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12 July 2017

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