Boyarina Morozova (opera)

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Boyaryna Morozova (1887) by Vasily Surikov depicting the Boyarina's arrest by Orthodox Believers, depicting an elderly Old Believer woman being arrested and carried off on a sled, with two fingers raised in an Old Believer sign of the cross.

Boyarina Morozova (Боярыня Морозова) is a 2006 choral opera by Rodion Shchedrin based on his own libretto on the story of Boyarina Morozova (d.1675), from the account of archbishop Avvakum[1] and inspired by the painting Boyarina Morozova by Vasily Surikov.[2]

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