The following paper publications have proven useful in my research on Russian Mormonism. Most of these can be found through searching the network of university libraries (Inter-Library Loan)....
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I wrote this article (click here to download Adobe PDF) after my first contact with Samara Mormonism in 1998. While many of my early conclusions turned out to be incorrect, this document was the first major attempt to systematically record the contact between American Mormons and those in Russia known by the same name.
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An interesting snippet, evidently from an old gazette, lists a simple religious census of Samara Province on October 1, 1925. Click here to open, or read the translation....
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Bulgakov's exhaustive work catalogues a laundry list of foreign and native Russian sects, including "Samara Mormons". The entire book is available online here. Below is my English translation of the entry on Samara Mormons....
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This "rehabilitation" of Russian purge victims lists Rodion Ivanovich Gorokhov as a "Mormon" elder. Below is my English translation:
"Gorokhov Rodion Ivanovich. Born in 1887. Native and inhabitant of Yablonevyy Ovrag village in Samara Province. Russian, non-party member, presbyter [elder] of the Mormon sect. Arrested February 1, 1931; sentenced July 27 by the Middle Volga District PP OGPU tribunal according to Article 58-10 (counterrevolutionary propoganda or agitation) to a term of three years in a concentration camp. Rehabilitated by the Kuybyshevsk Oblast Procurator on November 15, 1989."
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An interview with Ivan Zhabin, a man often described as a leader among the "Mormons" of the Orenburg area. Also includes a few paragraphs on "Orthodox Mormons", which I've translated below....
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[in Russian] This article on organized crime mentions "the organized criminal group known in Orenburg as the Mormons". Continuing, the author explains that "the leader of the group and chieftan of the Cossack village of Sofievka, Ivan Ivanovich Zhabin by name... could perhaps win elections and legally organize the Mormon bandits as a legitimate Cossack band."
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This newspaper article by Orenburg police investigator Igor Moiseev describes how the native Russian Mormon sect has become a powerful business syndicate, that Orenburg Mormons descend from the "old original Mormons" and still hold to some religious principles. The article is published online. I have also provided an English translation of the relevant paragraphs below....
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[in Russian] Another insightful article by K. Serebrenitskiy regarding a Khlyst group in Samara Province.
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[in Russian] A detailed account of the Khlyst movement in Duboviy-Umyot, a village near Samara identified as containing Mormons in the 1800's. Mr. Serebrenitskiy's articles (published online in the "Ethnicity and Culture" journal) are a major source for ethnographic knowledge in Samara Province.
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