3-010-008 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

A Nun of Pomorskii-Pocrovskii Convent on the Upper Reaches of the Uba River, 1910. The monasteries of the Pomorskie Sect of Old Believers, visited by archeographers from Novosibirsk, were the successors to the Pokrovskii women's monastery built there at the very beginning of the twentieth century with the financial support of Savva Morozov, a well-known textile mill owner who belonged to the Pomorskie Sect.