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The sectarian owning this library had recently died, and he
was spoken of as “a philosopher.”
Comparing the homes of these people with those of the
ordinary Russian settlers, the contrast, with regard to
cleanliness and good order, was so great that we could
hardly believe that the inhabitants belonged to the same
nationality. A great many of the Skoptsi of Marscha, it
is true, had come from the Baltic provinces; and their
brethren of Russian extraction did not observe such
scrupulous neatness as did they, but the contrast between the
former and the orthodox population was, as I have said,
astonishing.
As early as the beginning of the 19th century the Russian
Government began to exile Skoptsi to Siberia. In the year
1838 the sending of this class of exiles to Yakutsk
commenced, and at the beginning of 1860 it was resolved to
send them exclusively to the province of Yakutsk. In
those days they were often exiled to places unfit for
agriculture, and many of them succumbed to famine and
the hard climate.
In 1861 an ukase was issued that those of Protestant
extraction should be sent to the above-mentioned colony
of Marscha, and their brethren of the orthodox Russian
connection to Olekminsk and the upper Aldan, in order to
establish stations and serve as drivers on the so-called
Ayansky line of communication between the sea of Okhotsk
and the river Aldan.
In 1866 the Skoptsi in Yakutsk numbered 476; in 1894
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