The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 Stav*itza ' .â¢''⢠IT^ii^ t., i'- r \ Gotoskeva â â .:^?'!*Sis.\°' Le*itchovV, / E of G G MUes. Armenians are controlled by an outward organization more or less analogous to that of the State Church, and superior to the individual hierarchy of each. The Mussulman communities of the Tatars and Kirghiz as well as the Buddhist Kalmuks have also been obliged to conform their worship to the hierarchical forms imposed on them by St Petersburg. Each of these confessions has its central authority ;
The earth and its inhabitants The earth and its inhabitants .. earthitsinhabita583recl Year: 1883 Stav*itza ' .â¢''⢠IT^ii^ t., i'- r \ Gotoskeva â â .:^?'!*Sis.\°' Le*itchovV, / E of G G MUes. Armenians are controlled by an outward organization more or less analogous to that of the State Church, and superior to the individual hierarchy of each. The Mussulman communities of the Tatars and Kirghiz as well as the Buddhist Kalmuks have also been obliged to conform their worship to the hierarchical forms imposed on them by St Petersburg. Each of these confessions has its central authority ; each of them has been subjected to the pleasure of procurators or secretaries representing the imperial power ; each of them has its consistories intrusted with functions analogous to the Orthodox consistories. All these religions are tolerated, but are not allowed to proselytize, while the Raskolniks, regarded as apostates from the National Church, have not even the right of public worship. The Eussian army has been completely reorganized since the Franco-German
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