3-727: 19th Century religious sect in Russia [REDACTED] Perfil Katasonov Old Israel ( Staroizrail ) was a 19th-century sect founded in the 1830s by Perfil Katasonov, a disciple of Abbakum Kopylov , the founder of the Postniki (Fasters) sect, as the result of a schism. Its adherents considered themselves to be the Chosen People establishing the Kingdom of God on earth. The sect disintegrated into various spin-off sects, among them New Israel , at
6-526: Is different from Wikidata Abbakum Kopylov The Postniki (постники "fasters") were a millennial sect of 19th century Southern Russia , a branch of the Khlysty (flagellants) movement, founded by Abbakum (or Avvakum) Ivanov Kopylov (Аббакум / Аввакум Копылов, 1756–1838), a peasant of the Tambov Oblast . Kopylov declared himself the living Christ and gathered a considerable following in
9-1032: The death of its founder. References [ edit ] Daniel H. Shubin, The History of Russian Christianity, Volume III: The Synodal Era and the Sectarians, 1725 to 1894 , Algora Publishing (2005), ISBN 978-0-87586-426-6 , pp. 124ff. Sergei I. Zhuk, Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917 , JHU Press (2004), ISBN 978-0-8018-7915-9 . Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Staroizrail&oldid=1224082447 " Categories : Khlysts Christian new religious movements New religious movements in Russia Eastern Orthodoxy in Russia Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
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