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| | Russia's Secret -- Hoover and Petrov -- Chapter 18 |
 | | By the time Lev Tolstoy died, the evangelical movement in Russia (Stundists, baptised Molokans, Christians according to the Gospel) had grown very large, both "above" and "underground." Yet as it grew, it became apparent that not all of it was evangelical or directed by the Spirit of Christ. |
 | | After Tsar Nikolai left for the front and put his wife, with Rasputin as her closest advisor, in charge of Russia, tougher laws against refusal to bear arms sent believers to Siberia, to jail, or to the firing squad. |
 | | With Tsar Nikolai's fall, Orthodoxy as a state religion ended, and Russians, for the first time in their history, rejoiced in complete religious freedom.2 In St. Petersburg, believers rented the Ternichevsky Hall, with seating room for a thousand. |
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