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J. Eugene Clay, God's People in the early eighteenth century. The Uglich affair of 1717.
The People of God (popularly known as the flagellants or khlysty) were, next to the Old Believers, the most important indigenous sectarian movement in Imperial Russia. This paper examines the documents of their first heresy trial which was held in Uglich in 1717. Using insights from comparative anthropology and the history of religions, the article considers the various theories about the origins of the People of God, reviews the historiography of the problem, and concludes, on the basis of these documents, that the sect arose from Old Belief. The article also examines the powerful influence of certain Orthodox mystical traditions of hesychasm and holy fools upon the development of the group.

Aileen E. Friesen, Colonizing Russia's Promised Land: Orthodoxy and Community on the Siberian Steppe (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2020), xiii + 224 pp., index, illustrations (black and white), map. $48.75 (cloth). ISBN: 978-1-4426-3719-1.Alex Oehler and Anna Varfolomeeva, eds., Multispecies Households in the Saian Mountains: Ecology at the Russia-Mongolia Border (Lanham: Lexington Books; 1 edition, 2019), 296 pages. Hardcover, $95.00. ISBN: 9781793602534.