Afanasii Shchapov and the significance of religious dissent in Imperial Russia, 1848-70 / Thomas Marsden.
In the 1650s and 1660s, the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nikon, carried out a series of reforms which were rejected by a large number of the faithful. The split that resulted, the Great Schism or raskol, led a large proportion of the Russian population to become completely isolated...
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