Radonezh Newspaper
01 January, 1995
Despite 75 years of official atheism, religious faith in Russia is as intense as ever. Here a priest conducts a service as part of an annual pilgrimage. It takes the pilgrims three days and nights to reach the hillside where an icon of St. Nikolai Ugodnik was discovered in 1383.
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