Old Believers or some would say schimastics began to settle in Ukrainian land with the beginning of the reformation of the Russian Orthodox Church in the XVIIth century. They interpreted Christianity differently and had a number of denominations, which gradually gained hundreds of thousands of followers. In Ukraine, the most widespread communities of Old Believers are the Lipovans and Molokans. The Molokan community arose in the 18th century in the Tambov and Vladimir provinces of the Russian Empire. In the 1820s and 30s, the first Molokans left, and the rest were already forcibly removed from their native lands to Pryazovia, near the Sea of Azov, where they founded a number of settlements and live compactly to this day.
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21 авг 2024