The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers' Immigration to Canada God is not
This book describes the history in late 19th-century Russia and immigration to Canada of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors, or Spirit Wrestlers. The book is a translation into English of the Russian original authored by Grigoriǐ Verig
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Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers’ Immigration to Canada
Grigoriı ̌ Vasil’evich Verigin
The Chronicles of Spirit Wrestlers’ Immigration to Canada God is not in Might, but in Truth
Edited by Veronika Makarova and Larry A. Ewashen Translated by Veronika Makarova
Grigoriı ̌ Vasil’evich Verigin (Deceased) Editors Veronika Makarova Department of Linguistics University of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Larry A. Ewashen Creston, BC, Canada
Translated by Veronika Makarova
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This book is dedicated to Pëtr Vasil’evich Verigin, a visionary of his time. The book is dedicated to his life, 16 years of his suffering in exile and his tragic still unresolved death in British Columbia. It is also dedicated to all the Doukhobors who underwent the burden of suffering for the Truth in Russia, and attempted to conquer evil with good. Many of them were sacrificed in their truly heroic and excruciating battle.
Preface by the Translator and the Editors
This book is a translation into English of the Russian original that describes the history of an ethnic and religious group known as Doukhobors (Doukhobortsy) or Spirit Wrestlers. The author portrays their life in the late nineteenth-century Russia and their immigration to Canada. Doukhobortsy originated in Russia as a distinct Christian group in the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries. In Russian, “Doukhoborets” (Doukhobortsy in plural) means a Spirit Wrestler; subsequ
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