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Lost in the taiga
one Russian family's fifty-year struggle for survival and religious freedom in the Siberian wilderness
By Peskov, V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-38547-209-8
- Publisher
- New York : Doubleday, c1994.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on August 1, 1994
Russian journalist Peskov here expands his Komsomolskaia Pravda reports of a family of Old Believers-members of a fundamentalist sect that seceded from the Russian Orthodox Church in the 17th century-who moved to the remote Siberian forests in 1932 to escape the modern world. It may be difficult for readers without a background in Russian history to appreciate this book. Though a cursory explanation is given of the Great Schism in the ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
