#Old believers

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Russian Old Believer Cemetery,Kem' (1910s)

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Elderly Nekrasov Cossacks.

The Nekrasov Cossacks are descendants of Don Cossack Old Believers who left Imperial Russia and sought refuge in the Ottoman Empire, first in the Black Sea coast of Romania and then in Northern Turkey.

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Old believers cemetery, 1911, painting by the Russian painter Vladimir Aleksandrovich Plotnikov 1866-1917.

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But still, what actually is "rigorism"?

My best guess: Rigorism is the rejection of the decisions made by a given church's hierarchs in favour of an apparently or actually more conservative option (a lot of these groups have "old" or "ancient" in their names), manifesting as contempt towards the hierarchs in question or outright splitting from them. I'm not sure if this is an essential element, but they usually revolve around issues of practice that seem laughably trivial to outsiders; you'll see calendars pop up quite a bit here. Examples, with the issue they split over in brackets, include:

The Essenes in Second Temple Judaism (asceticism, the use of the Enochic calendar and the legitimacy of the Second Temple)

The Donatists and Novatians in Patristic Christianity (readmission of repentant apostates)

Old Calendarists in Greek Orthodoxy (the Gregorian or Julian year for the calendar)

Old Believers in Russian Orthodoxy (icon styles and how to make the sign of the cross)

The Ancient Church of the East in the Church of the East (the Gregorian or Julian year for the calendar)

The Old Catholic Church and Sedevacantism in Roman Catholicism (papal infallibility and the liturgical reforms of Vatican II respectively)

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mormonism (polygamy and the Adam-God doctrine)

Having made this list, I think there's an additional crucial trait unifying them: they all come from groups that in some fashion or another claim to be the True Church, and that's what gives them their unique character - they insist that they, a small schismatic group, are the only true Christians.

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is this anything

[novaneondream]

Anyways what kind of music do you think Eri listens to

[russia-libertaire]

Revolutionary apocalypse

"All these [populist] thinkers share one vast apocalyptic assumption: that once the reign of evil - autocracy, exploitation, inequality - is consumed in the fire of the revolution, there will arise naturally and spontaneously out of its ashes a natural, harmonious, just order, needing only the gentle guidance of the enlightened revolutionaries to attain its proper perfection. This great Utopian dream, based on simple faith in regenerated human nature, was a vision which the populists shared with Godwin and Bakunin, Marx and Lenin. Its heart is the pattern of sin and death and resurrection - of the road to the earthly paradise, the gates of which will open only if men find the one true way and follow it. Its roots lie deep in the religious imagination of mankind [...] it had strong affinities with the faith of the Russian Old Believers."

'A Remarkable Decade', in Russian Thinkers, by Isaiah Berlin

[cryptixotic]

Be real with me. You're sitting in a bar and a 𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔩𝔬𝔯𝔡 𝔬𝔣 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔰𝔢𝔞 with a massive sword rams into the door. Do you or do you not laugh

[arunneronthird]

in the batcave where i feel safe

[hinamie]

self-indulgent sukuna sheet

[vintage-russia]

Russian Old Believer cemeteries,Kem' (1910s)

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Lil radiohusk doodle 🥰🦌🐈‍⬛

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hilarious man (The National Play “Sorrow” for Six Hours at MoMA PS1)

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Старообрядки в фотографическом салоне. | Old Believer women in a photographic salon.

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