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tbme with it to Archav.rel, propofing it 
fhould winter in Nova Zemla-, but for- 
tunatcl)' 
of ridicule and reproach. The appellation they give 
ihemfelves is Starrs Vievi, that is, Prcfcjfovsoftbe 
Old Faith, 
Thefe heretics, in order to make thcmfelves 
fcnown, are obliged to wear a large yellow collar, 
bordered with red, which hangs a great way down 
the back, and ends ahnoft in a point. Upon con- 
dition of wearing this difunguifhing badge, what- 
ever their other drels be, and under the promife of 
not attempting to fpread their doctrine, or raifing 
disturbances in the empire, Peter the Great gave 
orders that tlicy lhould be tolerated, and live un- 
rholefted, after having been cruelly perfecuted for 
Some time before: 
This feci originated about the vear 1 6 6 6 , upon 
the following occafion. The patriarch Nicov, 
who may well be called the Hildebrand, or the Gre- 
gory VII. of the Ruffian church, as he plainly ap- 
pears to have bad the genius of that Pope, [<:c:u his 
ilifjmtes with the Emperor Alexey Michael- 
owitz (who at laft had him iolcmnh depefed from 
his dignity by the patriarch-:, bilhops, metropo- 
litans and other Rufiian prelates affembled tor that 
purpofeat Mofcon ) this Nico.v, I lay, had obicrved 
that manv obsolete avoids occurred in th.e Sclavonian 
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