Sentence examples for old believer from inspiring English sources

The term "old believer" is a misnomer.

She, too, was something of an old believer.

With the arrival of better times, he set about the reconstruction of the old believer community.

An old woman there told us that this was an Old Believer village, but it was dying.

The figure, even to us an old believer in America-the-Land-of-Opportunity, seemed staggering, and we asked for a breakdown.

Old Believer, Russian Starover, member of a group of Russian religious dissenters who refused to accept the liturgical reforms imposed upon the Russian Orthodox Church by the patriarch of Moscow Nikon (1652 58).

Hamish is the last of the old believers".

Many Old Believers left Russia in exodus centuries ago, fleeing persecution and scattering around the world.

Actually, Old Believers burned themselves alive rather than accept ritual changes in the Russian Orthodox church.

"You know, in Russia they had the old believers, who were sent into exile.

The opera's Old Believers who opposed westernization, he stressed, were not the Taliban.