Bibliography

Allione, Costanzo; Landes-Levi, Louise; Dudka, Nicolai; Tsirendashiev, Bair; D’Arista, Sicilia. Savohina: A Siberian Old Believer. New York: Mystic Fire Video, 1997. VHS, 30 min.

Savoniha tells about her life and how she was persecuted for her religious beliefs.

Allione, Costanzo; Norbu, Namkhai; Suren, Kandro. Where the Eagles Fly: Portraits of Women of Power. New York: Mystic Fire Video: 1995. 5 VHS cassettes, 180 min.

Film depicts the respective beliefs and rituals of women of various faiths, including a Russian Old Believer.

Fomina, Varvara. Ethics of Documentary Filmmaking in Theory and Practice. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri, 2014. 27 pp.

As part of a study aimed to look at how documentary filmmakers formulate their professional code of ethics, V. Fomina produced a six minute documentary film about the Old Believers in the Willamette Valley, Oregon. That film is included as a supplement to the e-book; both the text and the film are available here to view.

Hixon, Margaret. Old Believers. Virginia: Folkstreams, 1981. DVD, 29 min.

Shows how the Russian Old Believers of Oregon’s Willamette Valley have preserved their way of life. Observes how, as two families prepare for a wedding and its community celebration, religious ritual intertwines with a rich folk tradition. Available online through Folkstreams.

Litvinov, Petr; Varaksina, Valentina; Elders from the Durakovka River [Startzi s reki Durakovka]. Krasnoyarsk: Krasnoyarsk State TV & Radio Company, 2002. VHS, 15 min.

A documentary about members of the Old Believers—a Russian Orthodox sect that left the church in 1666, in the face of state-issued church reforms — who found a hiding place in Krasnoyarsk region of Russia, the perfect place to protect their traditions from outside influences.

Maltsev, Misha and Howard, Keith. Siberia at the Center of the World. Music, Dance, and Ritual in Buryatia. Filmed in June 2001 and July 2006. London: SOAS, University of London: AHRC Research Centre for Cross-Cultural Music and Dance Performance, 2008. DVD, 61 min.

Focuses on the music, dance and ritual of Buryatia, within the Russian Federation, to the east of Lake Baikal, the home of the Buryats.

Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich. Khovanshchina. A production of Unitel in co-production with Classica in cooperation with Bayerische Staatsoper; staged, directed, and designed by Dmitri Tcherniakov. Recorded July 10 and 14, 2007. Berlin: Medici Arts, 2009. Bluray disc, 174 min.

Old Believers, The. Montreal, Quebec: National Film Board of Canada, 1989. VHS, 56 min.

An introduction to the Reutov family, part of an isolated northern Orthodox Alberta community called the Old Believers. Adhering to the original Russian Orthodox Christian dogma and rituals, the Old Believers see themselves as the last Christians left on the face of the earth. Here in North America they are threatened not by persecution, but by economic bounty and the western notion of personal freedom.

Paskievich, John. The Old Believers. Featuring Amanda McConnell, Charles Konowal, Harvey Spak, and David Scheffel. Montreal, Quebec: National Film Board of Canada, 1988. DVD, 57 min.

Follows four seasons in the life of a northern Alberta community which adheres to the original Orthodox Christian dogma of ancient Russia.

Starovery Litvy. Featuring Leonid Glushaev, Eleonora Glushaeva, and Grigorii Potashenko. Vilnius: Lietuvos Televizija, 2003. DVD, 166 min.

Contains series of programs entitled “Khristianskoe slovo,” dedicated to an Old Believers Community in Lithuania.

Trencsényi, Klára and Naumescu, Vlad. Drumul păsărilor. Bucharest, Libra Film, 2009. DVD, 56 min

Birds’ Way is a creative documentary that guides us to a remote Old Believers’ village in the Danube Delta, Romania – following the route of migrant birds. The protagonist of the film is the Old Believer community itself. Once fugitives, excommunicated by the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666, Old Believers found refuge in the wild Delta where they could preserve old rituals, Russian customs and their sacred language. Today no one is left to read the sacred texts, nor priests to lead religious life. Their last “reader,” Artiom, tells us the destiny of Old Believers as laid out in the Book. — Container