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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Kostya Manenkov

Exiled from Russia centuries ago, a religious group is on the edge of vanishing

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A 10-year-old boy proudly stands beside his father and listens to the monotone chanting of elderly women clad in embroidered headscarves and long colorful skirts. It is Ilya's first time attending a night prayer meeting in Gorelovka, a tiny village in the South Caucasus nation of Georgia, and he is determined to follow the centuries-old hymns that have been passed down through the generations.

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