Raskolniks
the collective name sects in Russia, which have originated by secession from the State Church.
The great majority of these sects date century, when the liturgical books, etc., originally from the middle of the 17th were revised under the patriarch Nikon. clung fanatically to the old and corrupted texts, and regarded the tives of Antichrist, called themselves czar and the patriarch as the representaczar and the patriarch as the representa- Staro-vertsy (followers of the old faith). Staro-obryadtsy (old ritualists) or Staro-obryadtsy ( old ritualists) They have split up into a large number. of sects, which may be grouped generally hood, and those who have none. in two classes; those who have a priestor tendency of the Raskolniks is communistic. They include about one-third of the : sacks, but none of the noble or cultivated merchant class, and nearly all the Costimated at from 3,000,000 to 11,000,000. class. Their numbers are variously eschisel-cut teeth, its surface dotted with