Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (Revised) by Laura Engelstein

Castration and the Heavenly Kingdom: A Russian Folktale (Revised)

Laura Engelstein

304 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

nonfiction history religion emotional informative sad slow-paced
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Of the many sects that broke from the official Russian Orthodox church in the eighteenth century, one was universally despised. Its members were peasants from the Russian heartland skilled in the arts of animal husbandry who turned their knives on...

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