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Originally established at the end of the 13th century as the seat of
the Metropolitan of the Christian minority among the Tatar Golden
Horde and later a prison for the 17th century Bishop Avvakum, leader
of the Old Believers sect which branched away from the main Russian
Orthodox Church in a schism precipitated by Patriarch Nikon's desire
to reform the church. |
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