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(1897) [MARC] Author: Jonas Jonsson Stadling Translator: Will Reason With: Gerda Tirén, Johan Tirén - Tema: Russia
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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
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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
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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
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CHAPTER XIV.
OLDER RUSSIAN SECTS.
Tsardom and Orthodoxy—Reforms of Nikon—The StanoveriPopovtsi and
Bespopovtsi—The “Antichrist-Tsar”—Specimens of Hymns—Contempt
of Suffering—Stranniki (Wanderers) and Beguni (Fugitives)—How

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