Semeiskie

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An Old Believers chapel at the Ulan-Ude Ethnographic Museum in Buryatia

The Semeiskie are a community of orthodox

Cossack
guards who defended the borders of the empire. The descendants of these original Semeiskie have lived in the region ever since.

Culture

The Semeiskie have a long oral tradition, in speech

Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2001.[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Lambroschini, Sophie (December 1, 2003). "Russia: Old Believers Struggle To Keep The Faith Amid Isolation". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
  2. ^ Kliauz, Vladimir (2001). "Video-Recording Ritual Incantations and Folk Cures". SEEFA. VI (2). Translated by James Bailey: 28–34.
  3. ^ a b Dorofeev, N.I. (1989). Russkie narodnye pesni Zabaikal'ia: semeiskii raspev. Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ "Cultural space and oral culture of the Semeiskie". UNESCO. Retrieved 25 April 2012.