:DD thank u so much for your question!! genuinely you have no idea how happy this question makes me, most ppl either dk who the Doukhobors are or only associate them w the sons of freedom 😭😭

anyways, unfortunately it is a closed practice now (wasn't a few centuries ago), but tbh there's not that much that gets practised anymore apart from some services in Sask (in the original settlement area in Verigin, abt 9hr drive NW from Regina) and the Doukhobors in northern Georgia (the country), and surviving recipes and items. a lot of us don't even speak Russian, i think there are abt 200 ppl still alive who speak Doukhobor-Russian as their first language incl my Deda, and others like my mom who used to know it js from speaking to their relatives.

ofc you are SOOOO so welcome to participate in stuff :))))))))))))))) the "closed" part would be moreso actually calling and considering yourself Doukhobor bc there are some specific factors that formed who they became that isn't present in a lot of other groups. (personally i want to explore how the SoF went from pacifism + peaceful protest -> domestic terrorism + a cult; my Baba's entire family was part of this group and her brothers were some of the 200 children taken to the New Denver residential school, so there's also a personal component to that lol) they're also technically classified as an ethnoreligious group, however so is Judaism and you can convert to parts of that so this point is a little weaker considering they're (abrahamic religions) all lowkey the same thing. i will note that the way Doukhobors practice Christianity was referred to as being the closest version of Christianity as described in the Bible, so i think that's also something to consider.

im not sure how far into your Doukhobor research you've gotten, but i highly recommend the heritage site (here). it's run by this Doukhobor guy from Sask (i call him an anthropological historian but idk if he rly is) named John J Kalmakoff, mostly for Doukhobors doing family research but it is SUUUUPER informative if you're js wanting to learn :))))))))) im also so happy to send u info or talk abt Doukhobor stuff if you're comfy dming :)))) i hope i was able to help answer your question!!

and then i thought well maybe it was the RCMP and the only way they can "cover it up" is by declaring it a mystery.

quotes:

"The most despised assignment for a self-respecting policeman in [B. C.] has always been the one that took him into the land of the Doukhobors. It was filled with perpetual embarrassment, humiliation, and inevitable failure. The police had their clothes torn off them. They were driven from villages by mobs. Once two policemen were sat on by naked women as a group of Sons of Freedom laughed at the lost dignity of these symbols of government."

"[. . .] [Stefan Sorokin] had to appear in Vancouver Courthouse on examination for discovery in connection with his libel suit against the Trail Times for calling him a homosexual. (He lost the action ultimately because he failed to appear to press his claim.)" im sobbing this is so fucking funny

i got very focused on trying to find how my deda and his sister are connected when i first found it and kept collecting information in the background to try to find the paper trail connecting his deda to him. i knew i was finding a few people i recognized from the tree but wasn't paying attention to the generational order. i have to go through sources from my POV, my mom's POV, and my deda's POV to how everyone is related and it is a lot to keep track of lol

about mee :3

Thomas or Anya (idc), it/he/ae pronouns, triple earth sun moon and rising signs, queer + trans, autistic, in general there are many things wrong with me lol and i will likely be yapping A Lot about them on here.

other than what im actually diagnosed with, most of my shit is only suspected. However ive been doing extensive autistic-level research for 5 years regarding what is wrong with me and a lot of them have been present or in milder/masked forms for at least a decade. these include but are not limited to a few trauma-based disorders (dissociative shit and a phobia), some physical conditions, and ofc some genetic shit. yippee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /j

I'm also Doukhobor :3 I would lov so much to talk to other Doukhobors that aren't my family 😫🙏 there are so few of us lmao (at least where i live)

stuff on this blog:

i am pretty much just yapping about things that are going on in my life or other shit or whatever idek. general tw for this blog. but also im just a 24yr old queer autistic cunt trying to adjust in this fuckass shit. i like weed, crochet, metro/light rail transit systems (i am mapping All Of Them), music, genuinely cursed and very specific shit (for example my in-progress cyoa called Goofy's Bar Crawl Adventure: Fuck, Marry, Kill), diy slavic-engineering-type shit bc i am queer therefore i have the audacity, being angry about things, general arts/creative shit i love when ppl make things, tattoos n body mods, recreating my hyperrealistic interconnected dream world in minecraft, youchewb, dragons n dinosaurs ofc, and loving my friends. welcome to my blog.

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