Session of the Synod of the Latvian Orthodox Church. 1928.

Sitting (from left to right) – priests Feofan Borisovich, Grigory Dribintsev, Nikolay Tihomirov, Kirill Zayats, Archbishop Johann Pommer, priests Nikolay Pyatnitskiy, Romāns Passits, Karp Grūndulis.

Standing (from left to right) – priests Johann Eniņš, Johann Apiņš, Mihails Pētersons (a priest), I. A. Platter (a teacher), Alexander Makedonsky (a priest), N.I. Shalin (a member of the Court Chamber), I.B. Becker (a member of the Court Chamber), Pavel Yankovich (a priest), P.P. Smirnov (taxation inspector and church elder from Bauska), F.A. Butsen (a censor of foreign press), Yevgeny Svintsov (a priest). >>

Founders of the «Group of Enthusiasts of Russian Antiquity». >>

Council of Conventions of the Old Believers in Latvia. >>

Women’s Auxiliary Choir of the Grebenshchikov Prayer-house of Riga, 1920. >>

Those present at the Convention of Old Believers in Jēkabpils >>

The Old Believers of Latgalia. >>

The Ludza Government Russian Secondary School (gymnasium) – operated from 1926 to 1935 in a building at 62 Latgales Street. The gymnasium was the center of local Russian cultural life. >>

This school was founded in 1921. It flourished in the 1930’s, when its director was Ivan Tutyshkin. >>

At the beginning of the 1930’s in Latvia over 200 Russian primary schools with more than 20,000 pupils were in existence. Most of these schools were in rural locations.

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Editorial board of the Dlya Vas magazine. >>