Revealing the Remains of St. Sergius (1919)
Description: One of the earliest and clumsiest of examples of Bolshevik anti-religious propaganda was the attempt to unmask the fraudulent holy remains of fifteenth-century St. Sergius of Radonezh in the monastery of Sergiev Posad, which he founded. Although scientists did prove that the relics were not authentic, believers were not assuaged by the rationalistic attempt to rid them of their religious prejudices.
Source: Russian State Film & Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (2000).