Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2011
Of all European countries Russia is the most prolific in religious sects. Distrust of the Orthodox state church, on the one hand, which is regarded as too closely allied to the political power and unmindful of its duties to the people, and, on the other, religious ignorance with its consequent superstition, have given rise to innumerable sects, which range from religious nihilism to the most rigid traditionalism.
1 This document is published in the Cteniia (Lectures) of the Society of Russian History and Antiquities, associated with the University of Moscow, Vol. II (1871), pp. 26–79.
2 Lenz, Commentationes de Duchoborcis (Dorpat, 1829), p. 9.
3 Livanov, The Molokans and the Doukhobors of Tambov in the 18th Century, Vsemirnyi Trud, Vol. III (1867), pp. 245–297; The Molokans and the Doukhobors in the Ukraine, Viestnik Evropy, Vol. X (1868), pp. 673–701; XII, pp. 809–836.
4 Novicky, The Doukhobors. Their History and Religious Doctrines (Kiev, 1882), pp. 51–54.
5 Biriukov, The Doukhobors: collection of articles, reports, letters, and other documents, with a selection of their psalms (Moscow, 1908), pp. 65 f.
6 Tversky, The Epic of the Doukhobors. St. Petersburg, 1900.
7 Novicky, pp. 210 f.
8 It is printed in the Cteniia of Moscow, Vol. V (1874), pp. 137–145; in the Vestnik Evropy, Vol. X (1868), pp. 697–700; and in the work of Butkevitch, Dukhobortsy (Kharkov, 1909), pp. 29–34.
9 Characteristic Treatises of the Society of the Doukhobors. Cteniia, Vol. III (1861), pp. 3–16; Butkevitch, pp. 35–40.
10 It is to be found in the Livanov's book, Raskolniki, I, 463–470; Butkevitch, pp. 41–56.
11 Novicky, p. 246.
12 Livanov, pp. 84 f.
13 Novicky, p. 249.
14 Titov, The Sect of the Doukhobors, Missionerskoe Obozrienie, 1897, Vol. I, pp. 245–255, 377–388, 497–514; Kamenev, The Sect of the Doukhobors, St. Petersburg, 1905; Stavrov, The Sect of the Doukhobors: its Past and its Present, Khristianskoe Tchtenie, 1905, Vol. I, pp. 237–253, 386–396; Biriukov, The Doukhobors, Moscow, 1908; Butkevitch, The Doukhobors, Kharkov, 1909.