Igor Kuziner is a historian specializing in religious minorities, nationalisms, and social history in Russia. He holds a PhD in history and serves as an Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), where he leads the Research Group on Social Studies of Religion. His work explores Old Believers, church-state relations, and the intersection of religion and identity across the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

"This original study breaks new grounds in studies of Old Believers and particularly the Wanderers. An obscure group in imperial Russian and Soviet society, the Wanderers were more involved in the real world, dealing with the vicissitudes of the lands in which they lived, than had previously been realized. Igor Kuziner gives us a beautifully written story of three particular people -- Ryabinin, Zyryanov, and Zalesskii -- as guides to a much larger picture of a movement that managed to survive, apparently to the present day."-- Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan, USA.

• Introduction Chapter 1. The Wanderers in the World of Antichrist Chapter 2. The saints traded tooChapter 3: Apocalypse in VyatkaChapter 4. Three lives of Maksim ZalesskiiChapter 5. Wanderers in the labyrinth of Russian modernities

Igor Kuziner is a historian specializing in religious minorities, nationalisms, and social history in Russia. He holds a PhD in history and serves as an Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), where he leads the Research Group on Social Studies of Religion. His work explores Old Believers, church-state relations, and the intersection of religion and identity across the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

"This original study breaks new grounds in studies of Old Believers and particularly the Wanderers. An obscure group in imperial Russian and Soviet society, the Wanderers were more involved in the real world, dealing with the vicissitudes of the lands in which they lived, than had previously been realized. Igor Kuziner gives us a beautifully written story of three particular people -- Ryabinin, Zyryanov, and Zalesskii -- as guides to a much larger picture of a movement that managed to survive, apparently to the present day."-- Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan, USA.

• Introduction Chapter 1. The Wanderers in the World of Antichrist Chapter 2. The saints traded tooChapter 3: Apocalypse in VyatkaChapter 4. Three lives of Maksim ZalesskiiChapter 5. Wanderers in the labyrinth of Russian modernities

Igor Kuziner is a historian specializing in religious minorities, nationalisms, and social history in Russia. He holds a PhD in history and serves as an Associate Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics (St. Petersburg), where he leads the Research Group on Social Studies of Religion. His work explores Old Believers, church-state relations, and the intersection of religion and identity across the imperial, Soviet, and post-Soviet periods.

"This original study breaks new grounds in studies of Old Believers and particularly the Wanderers. An obscure group in imperial Russian and Soviet society, the Wanderers were more involved in the real world, dealing with the vicissitudes of the lands in which they lived, than had previously been realized. Igor Kuziner gives us a beautifully written story of three particular people -- Ryabinin, Zyryanov, and Zalesskii -- as guides to a much larger picture of a movement that managed to survive, apparently to the present day."-- Ronald Grigor Suny, William H. Sewell, Jr. Distinguished University Professor Emeritus of History, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, The University of Michigan, USA.

• Introduction Chapter 1. The Wanderers in the World of Antichrist Chapter 2. The saints traded tooChapter 3: Apocalypse in VyatkaChapter 4. Three lives of Maksim ZalesskiiChapter 5. Wanderers in the labyrinth of Russian modernities