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2-594. Correspond- ence concerning the Home of Labour is found in the Russkii gosudarstvennyi istoricheskii arkhiv dal’nego vostoka (Russian State Historical Archives of the Far East] (RGIA DV), Vladivostok, f. 702, op. 3, d. 178. 61 , ; ; each day and each activity in prayer, and praying before meals and thanking God afterwards. They are taught not to go to the priest or ask for a priest's blessings. Such a workshop exists now [1903] in St Petersburg, at one of Pashkov’s build- ings... and one must be shocked that Orthodox parents allow underage children to work there.” In January 1883 Police Chief Petr Gresser had attempted to close the establishment, accusing Pashkov of failing to properly maintain the prop- erty. Pashkov was not easily discouraged, however, explaining that it was not his intention to infringe upon the law, and that the snow piles would be removed shortly.” His sister-in-law Elizaveta Chertkova also ran a children’s shelter in St Petersburg with fellow Pashkovite Mariia Sergeevskaia.”* Schools were opened as well on the provincial estates of various Pashk- ovites, and some aristocratic ladies themselves taught peasants to read.” Pashkov supported a school at his estate Matcherka in the Tambov region, in which the teacher gathered her pupils on Sundays to learn hymns from the two Pashkovite hymnbooks, Favourite Verses and Joyful Songs of Zion.*° She was later transferred from her position by order of the government for engaging in anti-Orthodox religious propaganda.” In February 1884 Bishop Veniamin of Orenburg attacked two schools supported by Pashkov near his copper mines in the Urals, claiming that as well as refusing to honour Orthodox holy days, the schoolmaster distributed Protestant brochures among pupils and in the public library. At his estate of Vetoshkino in the Nizhnii Novgorod region, Pashkov maintained not only a hospital, library and homeless shelter, but also a school and an orphanage.” Pashkovite influence was felt in children’s homes in a variety of coun- tries long after the 1884 banishment of Pashkov and Korff from Russia. As 6 EN. Ornatskii, Sekta Pashkovtsev i otvet na “Pashkovskie voprosy”, 2nd edn (St Petersburg: Obshchestvo rasprostraneniia religiozno-nravstvennago prosvishcheniia v dukhe Pravo- slavnoi tserkvi, 1903), pp. 8-9. 27 Pashkoff Papers II/1/a/7, pp. 11-12. 8 L.N. Tolstoi, Polnoe sobranie sochinenii, vol. 85 (Moscow: Gosudarstvennoe izdatel’stvo “Khudozhestvennaia literatura’, 1935), p. 94. ® Dillon, “A Russian Religious Reformer’, p. 332. * “Zapiska iz del kantseliarii’, p. 21. >! “Tn 1883 Mr Almanovsky” in copybook “No. 2”. *2 “Zapiska iz del kantseliarii’, pp. 21-22. - 3 “Tainy pashkovskoi usad’by”, Monitor: Nizhegorodskii biznes-ezhenedel’nik, no. 44, 12-18 November 2001, http://www.monitor.nnov.ru/2001/number44/art20.phtml (accessed 2 August 2005). 62 mentioned above, the daughter of doctor Karl von Mayer, who fo