The Old Believers of Riga

Arnold Podmazov

About the Project. The Old Believers of Riga: 250 Years of Cultural Historical Experience

This digital album ‘The Old Believers of Riga’ is issued in the course of a project ‘The Old Believers of Riga: 250 Years of Cultural Historical Experience’ carried out by the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Latvian University and the Old Believers Society of Latvia with a financial support from Iceland, Lichtenstein, and Norway within the framework of the EEA Financial Mechanism as well as the financial support from the Republic of Latvia Government and from the Society Integration Foundation.

In the year 2010 the Russian Orthodox Old-Believers of Riga are celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Church of the Dormition of the Theotokos of the Grebenshchikov Community. The Grebenshchikov Community is the spiritual center for Old-Believers in Latvia as well as abroad. The contents including an insight into historical background and present-day activities of the Old-Believers’ community are represented and complemented by photos in this issue.

The album was created by project team:
Chief executive of the project & editor of the album - Illarion Ivanov
Author - Arnold Podmazov
Editor - Nadežda Pazuhina
Latvian translation - Arta Jāne
English translation - Velga Vēvere, Valters Dolacis
German translation - Jelena Lapiņa
Proofreader of the Russian version - Zoya Saveljeva
Proofreader of the Latvian version - Arta Jāne
Proofreader of the English version - Jānis Vējš
Design & layout - Matīss Kūlis
Project coordinator - Vallija Rone

Sources of photographs used in the album:
Archive of the Riga Grebenshchikov Old Believers’ Community,
Archive of the Old Believers’ Society of Latvia,
Archive of the I. Zavoloko Old Believers’ Society,
Family archives of the Old Believers of Riga (families Zhilko, Miroljubov, Vasiljev, Volkov, Chernjavskie, Isachenko, and Langer),
Photographs from the issue Русские в Латвии. Каталог выставки. (Рига, 2008.)

Special thanks for the photographs to:
Vladimir Nikonov,
Nikolay Ivanov,
Andrej IVANOFF, 
Anatoliy Shutenkov,
Martin Kudrjavcev,
Vasiliy Degtjarjov,
Viktoria Matison
Aleksiy Karataev,
Pjotr Aleksejev

Acknowledgments for help and consulting to:
Aleksiy Zhilko,
Feodor Behchanov,
Aleksander Gavrilin,
Nadežda Petkevich
Tatiana Feigmane,
Viktoria Aleksandrova,
Ludmilla Kleshnina,
Arta Jāne,
Jānis Vējš,
Zoya Saveljeva,
Vitaliy Permjakov,
Mārtiņš Mintaurs,
Irina Shurmel,
Boris Miroljubov,
Aleksander Emeljanov.