Several parts of the book were altered during transcription, to make it appear as if Maxim Rudometkin was telling Molokans to pray through him, contrary to the bible.

At the end of the 19th century, there were about 500, 000 Molokans within the Russia empire.

Because many Molokans were not educated in English and could not transliterate the spelling of their names, when individual families members were called to separate immigration windows and said their last name, the spelling used was based on of the immigration agent's ability to sound out the name.

An even earlier sect were Molokans which formed in 1550 and rejected Czar's divine right to rule, icons, the Trinity as outlined by the Nicene Creed, Orthodox fasts, military service, and practices including water baptism.

Molokans ( Russian for " milk-drinkers ": молокане ) are sectarian Christians who evolved from " Spiritual Christian " Russian peasants that refused to obey the Russian Orthodox Church.

Though Molokans are somewhat similar to the European Quakers and Mennonites — for their pacifism, communal organization, spiritual meetings, and sub-groupings — they are ethnically much closer to Doukhobors and Sabbatarians ( Subbotniki ) because they evolved from the same Russian Spiritual Christian movement of Khristovers and Ikonobors ( icon-wrestlers ), and migrated together with some intermarriage.

The latter includes a number of diverse " low-church " groups, from the Bible-centered Molokans to the anarchic Doukhobors to the self-mutilating Skoptsy.

Also present in the city are communities of Russian Molokans, Doukhobors and recent refugees from the former USSR: Ukrainian and Russian Pentecostals and Baptists.

The definition of " peace churches " is sometimes expanded to include Christadelphians ( from 1863 ) and Molokans ( Russian Orthodox " milk-drinkers "), though these did not participate in the conference of the " historic peace churches " in Kansas in 1935.

The Karay interpretation of Torah is significantly different from both Karaite Judaism and Orthodox Judaism, so for this reason their observances are classified as Mosaism ( along with Molokans, Gerei, and Subbotniks ) but not Judaism.

Before World War I there was a well-known colony of Molokans that had been exiled to the Caucasus ( an area long within Russian hegemony ), mainly to what is now Armenia, Azerbaijan, and eastern Turkey ( Kars plain ).

During the early 20th century under his fellowship, about 2, 000 Molokans ( mostly of the Jumpers and Leapers Sect ) left for the United States and settled in the Los Angeles area near the area of Boyle Heights.

In a sense Molokans are Protestants for rejecting Orthodoxy, and like Presbyterians in that they have a council of dominant elders.

Molokans are known for having different spellings of last names within the same immediate family.

Molokans are also known for having " first names " that aren't their legal names.

Molokans are said to be numerous in Canada, mainly over 1, 000 reside in the province of British Columbia and hundreds more in Alberta with their traditional communal lifestyle remains intact today.

In 1995, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival featured Molokans as one of their peoples.

He reached out to Chinese, Japanese and Molokan populations ( he encountered the first Molokans to enter Los Angeles, and became a patron of their community ).

In 1833, there was a reported outpouring of the Holy Spirit upon a number of Molokans in the Transcaucasus region.

With what the Molokans believed to be an additional manifestation of the Holy Spirit, this new smaller sect began a revival with intense zeal and reported miracles that purportedly rivaled those of Christ's Apostles.

An even smaller number of Constant Molokans fled Russia and settled mainly in the San Francisco, California and Sacramento, California areas.

Presently there are about 20, 000 people who " ethnically identify themselves as Molokans.

Approximately 25, 000 Molokans reside in the United States, of which only about 5, 000 " ethnically identify themselves as Molokans "; most of whom reside in California, Arizona, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Wyoming.

Recent settlement of Molokans in southern Alaska during the 1960s was well documented.

Significant numbers of Molokans live in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Ukraine and throughout Russia.

To a lesser extent, Molokans can also be found in Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mongolia, and in northwest China.

Some Molokans adhere to the Old Testament kosher dietary laws and do not eat pork, shellfish, or other " unclean " foods.

A thorough account of Molokans in America is documented in a book, called Molokans in America by John K. Berokoff.

Regarded as outcastes or untouchables, these were shunned and ostracized.

The outcasts were shunned and ostracized by the upper castes, and the sub-castes excluded, shunned and mutually repulsed the other.

Tibet also had the pariah caste, who were shunned by the villages and ostracized.

Many of those who testified were immediately ostracized and shunned by their former friends and associates.

Divorce, where possible, was scandalous, and women who divorced were stigmatized and often ostracized by society.

They also lacked a support network within the camps and were ostracized in the prison community.

Tuberculosis — the leading cause of death in France by 1900 — was highly communicable, there was no cure, and those who had it were feared, ostracized, and pitied.

So as 1961 progressed, the Yanks were now " Mickey Mantle's team ," and Maris was ostracized as the " outsider ," and said to be " not a true Yankee.

Though they Khazraj were in disagreement, Umar after strained negotiations lasting up to one or two days, brilliantly divided the Ansar into their old warring factions of Aws and Khazraj tribes, Umar resolved the divisions by placing his hand on that of Abu Bakr as a unity candidate for those gathered in the Saqifah, most others gathered at the Saqifah followed suit with the exception of the Khazraj tribe and their leader, Sa'd ibn ' Ubada, whose tribe was ostracized.

A number of Nazi collaborators and officials were killed, and those collaborating with the German or Quisling authorities were ostracized, both during and after the war.

Some were later ostracized following accusations that they had collaborated.

Jewish professors and students and political opponents were ostracized and expelled from the university.

* 1835 Victoria's settlers supported the revolution against Antonio López de Santa Anna, but were ostracized by new incoming Americans, many of whom were adventurous soldiers or fortune hunters, who wrongly profiled them as Mexican sympathizers and forced them to flee after the revolution in 1836.

The men who either refused to enlist or deserted in battle were often thought upon with scorn by their neighbors for the rest of their lives, and even their descendents were often ostracized for years afterwards.

Before the 19th century these hospitals were used to isolate the mentally ill or the socially ostracized from society rather than cure them or maintain their health.

The film was excoriated by British critics, who were offended by its sexual and violent images ; Powell was ostracized by the film industry and found it almost impossible to work thereafter.

Beside herself with grief and blaming herself for " Little Father Time's " actions, which were, in part, instigated by a conversation the two had had the previous night, Sue turns to the church that has ostracized her and comes to believe that the children's deaths were divine retribution for her relationship with Jude.

Some left the Current and the supporters of Cárdenas were ostracized and expelled from the PRI.

" Supporters of integration were denounced and ostracized by angry residents.

The working class of Paris were feeling ostracized after the decadence of the Second Empire and the Franco-Prussian War.