Two recently published books tell stories of Quakers in Russia – one book is set in the 1920s and one in the 1990s. In “Friends and Comrades: How Quakers helped Russians survive famine and epidemic“, Sergei Nikitin tells the...
The Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) and Russia Roger Bartlett In the eighth chapter of Alexander Pushkin’s great ‘novel in verse’, Evgenii Onegin (1823-31), the author describes his hero’s return to St Petersburg after his travels, and invites the...
Friends House Moscow is the latest stage in the long association between Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends) and Russia. The history begins in 1656 when the Society’s founder, George Fox, sent an epistle to the then reigning Tsar...