Word: vasilivich
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...hereditary leadership of the sect was bequeathed by a doting old woman to her lover, Peter Vasilivich Verigin, who had "the body of a Greek god, the face of a Tartar noble, and the pose of a martyred Christ." Verigin publicly insisted, "I am only one of the brothers, a humble slave of God. . . ." But to many Dukhobors he was the Kristos, to most he was the unquestioned dictator, and to the Russian Government he was a nuisance. Exiled to the province of Archangel, Verigin discovered at second hand the philosophy of Count...
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