Doukhobor Collection of Simon Fraser University

A collection of digitized images, print materials, and ephemera relating to the settlement of the Doukhobors in Canada, primarily in the late 19th and early 20th century. During this time period, thousands of Doukhobors fled religious persecution in their native Ukraine. This collection, focusing on their settlement in Canada, includes a variety of scanned manuscripts, photographs, books and book chapters, journals, magazine articles, financial documents and interviews dating from 1898 to 1975. Many items in Russian are accompanied by complete English-language translations; other items, including publications from the Doukhobor community and photographs with Russian inscriptions, are not translated.

Contributed by Special Collections and Rare Books, Simon Fraser University Library.

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[Essay] Peter Verigin visits Molokans, 1923 March 15, Los Angeles, California

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Date: 1923-03-15
Name(s): Karyakin, A.P.
Description: Essay by A.P.Karyakin "Peter Verigin visits Molokans", another Russian religious sect, in Los Angeles, California.

[Five men with a log jam, n.d.]

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Name(s): [Anonymous]
Description: Description from the family: "At work","Five young men standing at a log jam, probably below the mill."

[Five photographs in one frame: Peter Verigin, 1881-1939, Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, Lukeria Kalmykova, Leo Tolstoy, and Anastasiia Vasilevna Verigin, c. 1925]

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Date: 1925-06-27
Name(s): Gushul, Thos
Description: Summary: Peter Verigin, 1881-1939, in centre of photo, Lukeria Kalmykova top left, Peter Verigin, 1859-1924, top right, Anastasiia Vasilevna Verigina (1822-1905) bottom right, and Leo Tolstoy bottom left.

[Interview of Aleksei Feodorovich Horkoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]

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Date: 1975 (year approximate)
Name(s): Horkoff, Aleksei Feodorovich

[Interview of Anuta Pavlovna Popoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]

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Name(s): Popoff, Anuta Pavlovna, 1888-
Description: Photocopy ,Summary: tells about children's lives and how they worked, explains agriculture and the harvest and marriage practices

[Interview of Elisei Ivanovich Kootnekoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]

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Name(s): Kootenkoff, Elisei Ivanovich
Description: Photocopy,Summary: tells of the trip to Canada including the quarantine imposed by the Canadian government, discusses the methods of agriculture in Canada, especially animal husbandry

[Interview of Nastya Semonovna Seimeinoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]

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Name(s): Semenoff, Nastya Semonovna
Description: Photocopy ,Summary: when the Dukhobors came to Canada everyone worked together, different villages had different economic arrangements; many wild plants were used for food and to supplement their income

[Interview of Nikolai Feodorovich Barisoff by Marje Maloff, c. 1975]

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Date: 1975 (year approximate)
Name(s): Barisoff, Nikolai Feodorovich