Co-religionists communities of St. Petersburg (Leningrad) in the 1900s - 1930s

The first co-religionist communities (edinoverie) appeared in Russia in the 1780s, and in St. Petersburg - in 1799. In 1867 in the capital there were about two thousand co-religionists, by the beginning of the 20th century their number exceeded three thousand people. The number of churches at that time in the diocese of St. Petersburg was about 20. Soon after the October revolution of 1917, started were the persecution of believers and closure of their churches. The fellow actively participated in the opposition of Soviet power Iosiflianian movement. The last church of co-religionists in Leningrad - St. Nicholas Cathedral was closed in 1932. In General, in Soviet times, in connection with the mass persecution of the Church and the old way of life, the faith almost disappeared. In the early 1990s in St. Petersburg revived was the co-religionist community, which gave only one chapel of St. Nicholas Church on the Marata street. Another community in the 1990s was established in the village of Pavlovo-on-Neva.