molokan
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2ADJ.
small
MOLOKAN + NOUN
village
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A member of a Christian sect that evolved from "Spiritual Christian" Russian peasants who refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church, beginning in the 1600s in the Russian Empire as an indigenous adaptation of the Protestant movement from
As the Molokany are said to be well supplied with money the chances are that they are less flighty and unpractical than their predecessors, but if ever a National crisis arises here, and they refuse to assist in the defense of their adopted land and its institutions, they may regret that they did not remain under the fickle mercies of the Czar.
The Molokany, who though sternly puritan are less dualist, hold a Docetist view of Christ similar to the Bogomils’; […]
A general term used (in place of a specific term) in literature and news in and about the Russian Empire to label a member of any Spiritual Christian sect (real or imagined: Holy Roller, Doukhobor, Sabbatarian, Quaker, Mormon, etc.), pacifi
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3As the Molokany are said to be well supplied with money the chances are that they are less flighty and unpractical than their predecessors, but if ever a National crisis arises here, and they refuse t
WiktionaryThe Molokany, who though sternly puritan are less dualist, hold a Docetist view of Christ similar to the Bogomils’; […]
WiktionaryDeich still longed to be among the peasantry and by midsummer found his way to a small Molokan village where he settled for several months. […] Deich records that his propaganda failed, for although t
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