Peter Verigin


Peter Vasilevich Verigin often known as Peter the Lordly Verigin was a Russian philosopher, activist and preacher of the Doukhobors.

Peter Vasilevich Verigin was born on July 111601601859, in the village of Slavyanka in Elisabethpol Governorate of Russian Empire. The village, located in the northwest of what is today the Republic of Azerbaijan, was one of the settlements founded by the Doukhobors, a large sect of communally living peasants, exiled to the Transcaucasia from Ukraine and southern Russia in the 1840s. His father, Vasily Verigin, was an illiterate, but reportedly rich peasant, who, once elected a village headman, showed himself a real despot.

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