Molokan religion/Russia

[Paula_Mack]

Does anyone have any information on the Molokan's in Russia? I am interested in the area around T'flis, Erivan.

[hannia]

<Over 200 active Molokan congregations exist worldwide. In Russia, most Molokan congregations re-appeared due to laws now permitting religious freedom. The 150 Russian Molokan communities are mostly in the south, concentrated in the Northern Caucasus, throughout the Stavropol'skii krai, and the eastern Rostov oblast, Tselinskii raion. Since the reorganization of the former Soviet Union, almost all Russians, including Molokans, have been driven from the Caucasus. Of those who weren't resettled with existing Molokan communities, many were resettled throughout the Krasnodarskii oblast and Chernskii raion in the south Tula oblast.>

Molokan Home Page
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/russian/molokan/
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TFLIS (TIFLIS, Russia) & Erivan (Armenian capital city, YEREVAN) in Northern Armenia.

Molokans have resided in this area for last 170 yrs, unfortunately there are only about 5,000 Molokans left in Northern Armenian today.

IWPR's Caucasus Reporting Service, No. 103: Armenia's Molokans
http://lists.delfi.lv/pipermail/mine...er/001554.html

PS>I suspect you will need to focus on location a little better. Most Molokans lived in villages, so it could be that you are looking for Molokan villages in the Tiflis and Yerevan provinces.

Molokan Home Page
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/russian/molokan/
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LINKS OF INTEREST:

Ancestry Message Boards [ Molokan ]
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?ht...igious.molokan

Ivan G. Samarin - The Great Molokan Communicator
http://users.accesscomm.ca/doukhobor...gy/Samarin.htm

Molokan Genealogy -- Kars Church Records
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/r...rs_records.htm

Molokan Geneology Resources
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/r...kan/Genealogy/

Amateur genealogy Homepage - Russian Genealogy Resources on the Web
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/P...ourcesRus.html

scroll down to MOLOKANS
Religious - Christian - Russia / The Russian Federation
http://www.lib.vt.edu/subjects/slav/...hr_russia.html
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[Paula_Mack]

I guess I was not very clear on my query. I am specifically interested in information (if any) of the Villages that my grandparents were from in the early 1908-1912 when they left Russia to come to the USA. Kars: Novo-Selim and I think Erivan Nikitina. Are there any official records of census from that time? If so, how would I access them? Thank you for your post.

Paula Mackshanoff (Bogdanoff/Rudometkin)

[hannia]

KARS CHURCH RECORDS (see my post above) can be viewed thru LDS/Mormon Genealogy Library. Check w/LDS for dates on these records.

FamilySearch - Family History Centers
http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Libr...ameset_fhc.asp

Kars Parish registers, 1879-1917 and 1871-1919
E-mail from Rob and Sue Craven
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/r...rs_records.htm >>

Microfilm of manuscripts in the Central Historical Archive of the Armenian Republic, Erevan. Text in Russian. Catalog information from the LDS Family History Library Card Catalog for information collected from Kars, Turkey (Russian Empire). The first set was filmed on 62 microfilm reels by The Genealogical Society of Utah, 1994-1995. The information was collected from churches in the Kars area, that were tasked by the Tsar with political record keeping. Our research has shown that these films contain a vast variety of documents and files, including Birth, Marriage, Death and Passport records. As soon as any of you have seen these please send in a report. Go to the nearest Mormon Library. In California, check West LA and Oakland, and in Arizona I'll visit Mesa. ___________________________________________________________________________

Fioletovo (formerly Nikitino)
"A Handful of Russia in the Armenian Highlands" by Mark Grigorian
http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/r.../Grigorian.htm

[Conovaloff]

The website:

http://gecko.gc.maricopa.edu/clubs/russian/molokan

was moved in Summer 2004 to

Molokan Home Page