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The Romanovs and the Russian Orthodox Schism of the 1660s
In this episode of The Romanov Dynasty, Lucas and Luna explore a pivotal yet often overlooked chapter: the Raskol, or Great Schism, that tore through 17th-century Russia. Patriarch Nikon's sweeping liturgical reforms—correcting misspelled names, altering the number of prostrations, mandating three fingers instead of two for the sign of the cross—triggered a fierce backlash from traditionalists led by the fiery archpriest Avvakum Petrov. Thousands of Old Believers, or starovery, were exiled, tortured, burned at the stake, or fled to remote forests to preserve the old rites. The Schism…
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