Stranniki

The Stranniki (Russian for Runaways or Wanderers) are the strong Pomorsky Old Believers who rejected prayers for Tsar Peter and all government papers (identification, passports, money, etc). They would not wear clothing contrary to Old Orthodox Russia, nor eat with those of contrary Faith and Practice. Keeping themselves separate from the antichrist society they went far into the Siberian wilderness. This blog is about these people and my effort to conform my life to theirs.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Holy Cross - Святой Крест

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Here is an Old Believer wooden carving about the “Life-giving Cross” << Животворящего Креста >> . Спаси Христос! Save Chr...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Who are the Runners?

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A metaphor for the modern traveler. The name ‘Bieguni’ comes from a sect of Russian Orthodox Old Believers, who treated movement as a sacred...
Monday, September 28, 2009

25% of the World Lives Without Electricity

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For world leaders it is a real problem that 1.6 billion people worldwide now live without electricity. I saw it as good news that so many pe...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Birth Certificates & Social Security Data

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As can be seen in the photo of an old Social Security Card above, they were not to be used for identification. Now that the birth certi...
Saturday, September 26, 2009

Wine-Bibbers

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There is an article about the  Old Believer Settlements and it mentions that they discouraged the use of alcohol [the more strict ones forb...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Being Weighed Down With Material Fetters

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Why do we attach such value to material things, seeing that we have been taught to despise them? Why do we cling to money and possessions, a...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

Ambitious Militarist/Industrial Expectations

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The Pied Piper of the Earth Industrialism is really just a prideful invention of the Military. Before the U.S. Civil War everything that...
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