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(1901) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Francis Henry Hill Guillemard - Tema: Russia
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CHAPTER X.


THE SKOPTSI IN EXILE.



Olekminsk—Spaskoie—What Skoptsi Labour has done—An uneasy Corpse—
Marscha, the Skoptsi Colony—A Finnish Member of the Sect—A
Philosopher’s Library—History of the Skoptsi.


The first place of any importance at which we stopped
after having crossed the border of the province of Yakutsk,
was the town of Olekminsk, the depôt of the gold-fields
on the river Olekma. The town proper, with its small
grey houses and its filthy street, deserved no higher rank
than that of village. In the neighbourhood of the town,
however, and connected with it by a broad street, lies
Spaskoie, the village of the “Skoptsi”, which, with its
substantial and well-built houses, its cleanliness and good
order, forms a most remarkable contrast with the town.

In Olekminsk, as in Kirensk, various epidemics had been
raging, and had carried off many of its inhabitants. In
the colony of the Skoptsi, on the other hand, there had
been no epidemic of any kind, thanks to the cleanliness
and rational way of living of its inhabitants.

In this place, as elsewhere, the Skoptsi have done
wonders as agriculturists. When they came here forty

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