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A few weeks ago (a Friend ) learned that Tolstoy teamed up with British, Canadian and American Quakers to help about 10,000 Doukhobors emigrate from Ukraine (which was then part of the Russian Empire) to Canada. The Doukhobors were a Protestant (sort of) Peace Church. They were very strict pacifists and the men refused to report for military service in the Czar’s army so they were imprisoned, tortured, and deported to other parts of Russia. Also, like “unprogrammed” Quakers they didn’t have any pastors or ministers, although they did have one guy they looked to as their leader because he was a “weighty” Doukhobor (to use our lingo). Tolstoy wrote about the Doukhobors, suggested they were deserving of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, and donated the money he earned from sales of Anna Karenina to paying for their transportation to Canada. Turns out Tolstoy was a huge pacifist (after he served in the Russian army in the Crimean War) and he and the Czar really didn’t get along.
(I Friend) don’t know if any of you are interested in this chapter of history the way I am, but I thought I would pass on these links to some books and articles about it.
https://www.quakersintheworld.
https://theses.gla.ac.uk/
And for a bonus a Dukhobor moment from 2011 spiritual salad bowl
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