Peoples of Russia: “Ural Old Believers in the early 21st century. Resources of the Tradition” in St. Petersburg.

The exhibition "The Ural Old Believers in the early 21st century. Resources of the Tradition" opened at the Russian Museum of Ethnography (St. Petersburg).

The core of the exhibition is the collection donated to the Russian Museum of Ethnography by Natalia Litvina, museologue and archeographer, research officer of the Russian Academy of Sciences Archives (Moscow), who had long studied religious and material traditions of Russian Old Believers, (Pomorie inhabitants) of Verhokamye.

Russian Old Believer population of the Upper Prikamye (Perm Territory) had been formed during the 18th century, mainly due to immigrants from Central Russia and the Volga, who fled to the Urals from persecution for their faith. The exhibition features old Russian types of clothing still in use in the second half of the 20th – early 21st century. Woven and braided belts are also displayed.

The collection of N. V. Litvina has been supplemented by some exhibits assembled by the staff of the Russian Museum of Ethnography in the early 21st century, in the same area.