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Old Believers or Old Ritualists[a] are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox 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, these Christians were anathematized, together with their ritual, in ...
Ufa province, Ufa district, Bogorodsk volost, village Maksimovka Found in the Central State Archive of Ancient Acts in Moscow, "The Book of Ufa" reports that the land under the present village was designated as arable land for one of the boyars "in the summer of 7119 (1611), and the border of that arable land from the newly baptized Maxim's estate is near a large lake."