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... ’s among the Transcaucasian Molokans, of which it was an offshoot. The Nazarenes also interpreted the Bible allegorically but more consistently than the Molokans; they repudiated church rites. In the early 20th century they merged with the Molokans.(2) Jewish Christians were also called Nazarenes. The word in this sense was even used in the Koran.

... for such sects as the Molokans, Dukhobors, and Stundists. In 1897, Tolstoyism was declared to be a dangerous sect. Tolstoy was excommunicated from the Orthodox Church in 1901, and his followers were arrested and exiled.Colonies of Tolstoyans, called cultural hermitages, were established in the 1880’s in Tver’, Simbirsk, and Kharkov provinces and in ...