Circle of Old Believers: from font to a graveyard

The church schism of the middle of the 17th century became a watershed of Russian history. Most scientists, probably, have not yet fully realized what irreparable disaster occurred in Russia in the distant XVII century, as they did not understand the true scale and significance of Russian resistance - the movement of the Old Believers.
In the future, in the reign of Peter I, the religious schism was deepened by the split of the cultural. Hundreds of thousands of Russian people who did not want to change the faith of their ancestors were called ignoramuses, were considered criminals against the Church and the state and are doomed to church and tsarist punishment.
Fasting of the persecution, the Old Believers rushed into impenetrable forests, to the outskirts of the state, beyond its borders, fled to all ends of immense Russia. The guardians of "ancient piety" threw everything except ancient icons and old printed books, and in a new place where fate threw them, carefully, by bit, revived ancient Russia.
About the past and present "True Orthodoxy", about the daily life of the Old Believers