-Taking the opportunity to suggest that anyone remotely interested in the old believers - or Dukhabors - go find a copy of Philip Marsden’s eminent exploration

-Taking the opportunity to suggest that anyone remotely interested in the old believers - or Dukhabors - go find a copy of Philip Marsden’s eminent exploration of the south Caucasus Dukhabor heartlands in his book ‘The Spirit-Wrestlers’. Part travelogue, part history, part religious - it is one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read.