Selections dealing with the origin and history, theology and beliefs, traditions and worship, community and domestic life, and personal conduct, of the early Spiritual Christian Molokans of Russia.
Includes the early development of sectarian Christianity in Russia with the Bogomiles, Paulicians, Strigolniks, Bashkin, the Judaizers, and Tveritinov; Uklein's Confession of Faith, and many others; with regular church services, and weddings, funerals, child dedication; the persecution of early Molokans; tenets and dogmas from the various Molokan congregation; interviews with Molokan elders; family and marriage among the Molokans; and the Molokan Communal Congregation.
Translated from the original Russian into English.