Historical and critical study of Russian sects

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Le Raskol. Essai historique et critique sur les sectes religieuses en Russie, Paris, A. Franck, 1859, octavo, VI, 262 pp., paperback, (worn cover, fragile spine). First edition. A very interesting study of this separatist sect of the Greek church in Russia, whose rites and superstitions are extensively described. It settled in Russia as early as the 17th century and was persecuted, though not very effectively, by all the tsars, especially Peter the Great.