Sentence examples for old believers from inspiring English sources

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.

Charming and amusing scenes, with shamans, madmen and Old Believers, dependably relieve his book's underlying grimness.

The official church (today's Moscow Patriarchate) broke away from the old believers, rather than vice-versa.

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.