The Changes That Boiled Up in the Octobre Manifesto

By 19 o five, russian religion had been experiencing its own kind of new age. There was a profound fascination with mysticism and spiritualism. The aristocrats experimenting with spiritualism were far from the only people leaving the orthodox church to look for answers elsewhere. In siberia, as we know, the old believers were practising their own form of religion. But there were also christians who were giving up an orthodoxy altogether like the number of baptists who were growing their churches on the european side of the Russian empire.