Testimonies (Why I Believe)

Nina Bazarskaya: A Russian Latter-day Saint and 'The Widow's Mite From Russia'

Published August 25, 2026 at 7:17 AM

Todd Morgan

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Todd Morgan

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Nina Bazarskaya is a Russian Latter-day Saint whose testimony, 'The Widow's Mite From Russia,' was published in the volume 'Clothed With Charity: Talks From the 1996 Women's Conference' and whose oral history is preserved among the papers of Relief Society General President Chieko N. Okazaki. A faithful Latter-day Saint from Russia—where the Church was long unable to preach openly—Sister Bazarskaya's witness is a faith-promoting reminder that the restored gospel reaches even to the lands where it was once forbidden, and that the Lord has His faithful daughters in every nation, even those who give, like the widow, from their want.

Sources & References

'Interview with Nina Bazarskaya,' Chieko N. Okazaki papers, 1994, Archives West (https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:80444/xv03195); Nina Bazarskaya, 'The Widow's Mite From Russia,' in 'Clothed With Charity: Talks From the 1996 Women's Conference,' ed. Dawn Hall Anderson and Susette Greenhalgh; BYU ScholarsArchive.

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