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- ↑ The text can be found e.g. at The Seven Bow Beginning or at "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2012-03-30. Retrieved 2011-10-05.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ↑ As found in The Jordanville Prayer Book of Holy Trinity Monastery (1986).
- ↑ It can be found e.g. in the beginning of the evening prayers: Молитвы вечерние (text in Church Slavonic).
