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CHAPTER X. | |
AMONG GERMAN COLONISTS. | |
Skilful Boatmen—Adventures in a Row-boat—The German
Colonies—Their Prospering—and Decay—Mennonite Colonies—Their Principles—A Visit—An Oasis in the Desert—Peace and Plenty—A Miracle of Co-operation—Land for All—Successful Prohibition—A Wonderful Record of “Crime”—“No Priests, Policemen, Publicans, or Paupers”—Co-operation and Competition | 151 |
CHAPTER XI. | |
IN THE CITY OF SARATOV. | |
The City—General Ustimovitch—A Stundist Meeting—A
Prison-Evangelist—Detectives—A Notable Picnic—Consecration of the Volga—Calumny against Stundists—An Orthodox Missiocary—Holy Water | 159 |
CHAPTER XII. | |
PRINCE DMITRI KHILKOV. | |
His Questionings—Abandonment of Property—Life as a Mushik—Influence
on the Peasants-—Conflict with Landowners—with the Church—“The Damned Stundist”—Banishment by “Administrative Process”—Journey into Exile—A Well-meant Offer—Settlement of Baschkitchet—Activity during a Cholera Epidemic—An Official Medical Commission—Imperial Persecution—His Confession | 169 |
CHAPTER XIII. | |
A RUINED FAMILY. | |
Wealth and Rank—A Good Landowner and his Clever
Son—Schooldays—Liberal Opinions and their Dangers—Disorder in the Schools—Accession to the Estate—Scientific Research and Police Suspicion—At Moscow—A Cruel Plot—Solitary Confinement Uncondemned—The Sentence—Exile to Siberia—Destitution—Better Things—“No Rights”—Police and Love Affairs—Fate of a Refugee—Waste of Human Life—Loss of the Estate—A Young Girl’s Religious Experiences—Education—Good Prospects—Struggle after Truth—Reading the New Testament—Persecution by Priests and Police—Exile—A Generous Revenge—Another Sister’s Fate—And a Brother’s—Mammon and Priestcraft | 183 |
CHAPTER XIV. | |
OLDER RUSSIAN SECTS. | |
Tsardom and Orthodoxy—Reforms of Nikon—The Stanoveri—Popovtsi and
Bespopovtsi—The “Antichrist-Tsar”—Specimens of Hymns—Contempt of Suffering—Stranniki (Wanderers) and Beguni (Fugitives)—How |
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