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from History of Caucasian Molokans and Dukhobors
by Ivan Iakov. Semyenov, Erevan 2001
600 copies printed in Erevan, Armenia, 2001 — 120 pages
 
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  • Photo 1:  Congress of Spiritual Molokans in the village of Voronstovka in 1905. [The Tsar had just declared freedom for all religions who register and declare their docrine. The Molokans had to organize.]
  • Photo 2:  Overall view of the village of Fioletovo. 
  • Photo 3:  Molokans of Chambarak village, Stavropol' province [ERROR: Chambarak is in Armenia.  Founded in 1800s as Mikhailovka, in 1920 became Karmir gyugh ("Red village"), then in 1972 Krasnoselsk.]
  • Photo 4: The land feeds (us) [literally: the land is a wet-nurse, or like a woman nursing another's baby.] 
  • Photo 5:  [Former] Home of Maksim Gavrilovich Rudometkin in the village of Fioletovo.
  • Photo 6:  Molokans in the village of Fioletovo.
  • Photo 7:  Spinning wheel
  • Photo 8:  Butter that we make ourselves
  • Photo 9:  After the prayer service
  • Photo 10:  The cabbage feeds them [literally: the cabbage is a wet-nurse
  • Photo 11:  Molokans love tea.
  • Photo 12:  Graves of the ancestors (village of Fioletovo) [Called domiki, little houses, these have hinged covers to protecct the inscription.]
  • Photo 13:  Village street
  • Photo 14:  Future homemakers.
  • Photo 15:  After work.
  • Photo 16:  We drink tea from childhood (on)
  • Drawing 1:  Dukhobor (man)
  • Drawing 2:  Dukhobor (woman)
  • Photo 17:  Summer pavilion of Luker'i Kalmykova in Gorelovka
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