Russian sects and their reality

Archpriest Timofei Butkevich is a clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian, publicist, professor of Kharkov University, member of the State Council. T.I. Butkevich presented in his work a rich factual information about religious movements in Russia: whips, suloputs, Lubkovtsy, Churikovites, Montana, Maryanovshchina, Seraphim, pigeons, scraps, fools, milk jackets, Jewish (subbotniks), jumpers, studio -baptists, Pashkovtsy, and adventisters , Tolstoyeans and many other local forms of sectarianism. The researcher gave information about sects according to a single scheme, presenting their history of development, the fate of leaders and their adherents, the state at the beginning of the twentieth century, the teaching, expressed in various religious, polemic and folklore texts that are actively cited by them. Distinctive features of the exercises are presented, their theological refutation is given