Talk:Old Believers: Difference between revisions

==Confusing paragraph==

I'm confused by this paragraph in the "after the schism" section:

<blockquote>In 1905, Tsar Nicholas II signed an act of religious freedom that ended the persecution of all religious minorities in Russia. The Old Believers gained the right to build churches, to ring church bells, to hold processions and to organize themselves. In 1762, Catherine the Great passed an act that allowed Old Believers to practise their faith openly without interference. It became prohibited (as under Catherine the Great—reigned 1762–1796) to refer to Old Believers as raskolniki (schismatics), a name they consider insulting.</blockquote>

So they got religious freedom in 1905, but they also got the right to "practise their faith openly without interference" in 1762. So which is it? Did they get partial rights granted under Catherine, and fuller ones under Nicholas, or was there a loss of rights after Catherine's death when less open-minded Tsars came to the throne? I think it would be clearer to re-arrange the paragraph into chronological order (by somebody who knows something of the subject) to make it clear how they were treated, when, and by whom. [[User:Chuntuk|Chuntuk]] ([[User talk:Chuntuk|talk]]) 21:42, 3 February 2021 (UTC)