Verigin, Peter Vasilevich "Peter the Lordly"

VERIGIN, Peter Vasilevich "Peter the Lordly," Doukhobor leader (b 29 June 1859, Slavyanka, Russia; d 29 Oct 1924, near Grand Forks). He became leader of the DOUKHOBORS in Russia in 1887 and was immediately arrested by the Tsarist police. Exiled in Siberia for 15 years, he passed the time developing his religious and political ideas. Meanwhile the Doukhobors organized a mass migration to Canada in 1898–99. When Verigin was released from detention in 1902 he followed, and arrived at the...

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