Sabbath-keepers in Russia.
By John Nevins Andrews
In the new edition of my Sabbath History, pp. 464–467, I have shown that there are many Sabbath-keeping Christians in Russia, and that their history dates back at least one century earlier than the reformation under Martin Luther. I have just met with an interesting confirmation of this statement. There lives in this vicinity a sister by the name of Pigueron, who with her daughter removed in 1871 to Roumania, a province of the Turkish Empire which borders on Russia. She returned last year. She states that the brother of her daughter’s husband visited Russia, and on his return told her that there were people in Russia who keep the seventh day as the Sabbath. He said that they had churches, but that they were much scattered by persecution; that there are many of them, and that they kept it from their forefathers. I will in due time give a further account of these observers of the ancient Sabbath.