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The Cult Dossier · No. 022 · Christian-Derived
Khlysty
THE NAME IS THEIR ENEMIES'. They called themselves KHRISTY ('Christs'), KHRISTOVERY ('followers of Christ's faith'), or simply GOD'S PEOPLE / Khristovshchina
c.1645 – 1930s · Russia
II. MEDIEVAL — HERESY, DUALISM AND THE MILLENNIUM
Fully religious — underground Orthodox sect
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
### How it ended, or where it stands
### The dead
### Of note
### Its timeline
- c.1645 Danila Filippovich proclaims himself the incarnation of God in Kostroma province.
- 1733 and 1745 Two major state investigations in Moscow; leaders exiled, executed, or bodies exhumed and burned.
- c.1770 Kondraty Selivanov splits off to found the Skoptsy.
- 1903–1912 THE RASPUTIN KHLYST INVESTIGATIONS — THERE WERE THREE, NOT ONE, AND THIS FILE PREVIOUSLY COMPRESSED THEM. On 6 SEPTEMBER 1907, acting on a DENUNCIATION DATING FROM 1903, the TOBOLSK CONSISTORY opened a case accusing Rasputin of spreading false teaching resembling that of the Khlysty and of forming a society of followers around it. THE FIRST INQUIRY CONCLUDED IN JUNE 1908 with the verdict that he was 'a Christian from the village of Pokrovskoye'. A SECOND INQUIRY again found him a true Orthodox believer. THE THIRD WAS TAKEN UP PERSONALLY BY THE NEW BISHOP OF TOBOLSK, ALEXEI (MOLCHANOV), who studied the case materials, sought information from the clergy of the Church of the Intercession, and interviewed Rasputin repeatedly; HE CONCLUDED IN NOVEMBER 1912 that Rasputin was unequivocally 'an Orthodox Christian' with 'spiritual leanings, who sought the truth of Christianity'. With that the Church's interest ended. NO INQUIRY EVER ESTABLISHED KHLYST MEMBERSHIP. Note what these findings are and are not: three internal ecclesiastical investigations, conducted by the institution he was accused before, at a time when he held influence at court.
- 1930s Effectively liquidated under Soviet anti-religious campaigns.
### Its people
### Danila Filippovich
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Founder, the Khlysty · c.1620 – c.1700 · active c.1645–c.1700
Before the law. The movement was persecuted continuously by both church and state.
Where things stand. Deceased c.1700. The Khlysty were liquidated under the Soviets in the 1930s.
- c.1645 Declares himself the incarnate Lord of Hosts in Kostroma province.
- c.1650–1700 The movement spreads underground across central Russia.
- 1733, 1745 Major state investigations; leaders exiled or executed, some bodies exhumed and burned.
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