Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Despite the persecution – even parents who wished to raise their children by the Old Believers’ traditions were dragged to court – the Old Believers’ chapel in the village of Kasepää just at the Lake Peipsi has been continually in use since the...

Built in 1802 it is the one Old Believers’ church in Piirissaare that has survived. The other one got destroyed during the German occupation. Many old believers’ themselves were deported by the Germans. It is still a tradition that the fisherme...

This 1883 built Old Believers’ chapel just at the Lake Peipsi was damaged by a fire at the end of the 20th century. The village its self was first mentioned in 1592 as Kolko. It still feels – in the midst of Russian influences and wild nature –...