Volga lights № 32 A few thoughts of Mary Antonovna Sinovenous about life. (1990)

Parishioners leave the village Orthodox Church.

People go to the village.

Dragonfly on the fence.

Maria Antonovna Sirovina takes a clothesline.

Zinovina runs the yard.

Dogs and cats in the yard.

M. A. Zinovina speaks about the need for an Orthodox person to be ready for the moment of death, about the need to live according to Christian commandments (synchronously).

An elderly woman makes the sign of the cross, climbs the steps of the Alexander Nevsky Church in the village of Razino, Astrakhan region.

Church service, reading the gospel.

Conducting the rite of baptism of a child.

The priest performs the unction of the baptized children.

Burning logs in the oven.

Zinovina talks about her daily life, about the profanity of local women (synchronously).

Zinovina rolls out the dough on the table.

Preparing the Holy bread for baking.

A woman crosses prosphora before putting them in the oven.

A priest and women walk through the cemetery.

Zinovina lights the censer.

A priest with a censer walks around the graves.

Holding a memorial service at the cemetery.

Rural landscape.

There is a woman with a yoke.

Zinovina talks about her daily life and work in the Church (synchronously).

The Abbot of the temple with a chopper goes to chop wood.

M. Zinovina sets candles in the Church before the service.

The bells on the belfry.

Icon Of the mother of God in the Church.

Service in the temple.

Consecration of Easter cakes.

Sirovina puts a lit candle.

Zinovina climbs the stairs to the belfry on Easter night.

Easter procession around the Church.

Zinovina rings the bells.

View of the temple and outbuildings next to it.

Zinovina is sitting on the porch, talking about her repressed parents, her mother's order not to forget God and do good (synchronously).

Dragonfly on the fence.