Photojournale : Photo documentary and photo journal stories from around the world - Transbaikalian Old Believers | Transbaikal http://bladepicturecompany.com/categories.php?cat_id=21 All "differently-thinking" people who was not consent with church reforms, was banished in monasteries and prisons, executed, burnt on fires, without sparing even women and children.
Trying to avoid persecutions by all their forces, many Old Believers had to ran abroad - in Turkey, Austria, Poland. Later Katherine II, the Russian empress, issued the manifest which permitted all living abroad Old Believers to return home and to settle on free territories, the main of which was Siberia.
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