Open AccessReigning with Christ for a Thousand Years: Two Prophets of Russian Millennialism
Author(s) -
Sergey V. Petrov
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
gosudarstvo, religiâ, cerkovʹ v rossii i za rubežom
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.161
H-Index - 5
eISSN - 2073-7211
pISSN - 2073-7203
DOI - 10.22394/2073-7203-2020-38-3-149-177
Subject(s) - memoir , sectarianism , history , russian history , period (music) , principal (computer security) , doctrine , anticipation (artificial intelligence) , law , philosophy , ancient history , political science , aesthetics , art history , operating system , politics , computer science , artificial intelligence
The article explores the crossroads of two surviving groups of “old Russian sectarianism” — Molokan Jumpers and JehovistsIl’intsy — for whom the anticipation of the millennial kingdom on earth was a central doctrinal tenet. Researchers in the past, as well as modern scholars of religion, usually have not paid attention to the connection between the two movements, which was at one time quite substantial both in the doctrinal and the practical sense. Handwritten, typed and unofficially published sources gathered by the author during field work served as the principal material for the article. They include letters of Nikolai Il’in to his followers and his other writings, the memoirs of Molokan elders, and the historical accounts found among the Molokans of Armenia and the USA.