Baptist beginnings in Russia and Ukraine.

Baptist History and Heritage | January 1, 2007| | Copyright

In the 1860s and 1870s, religious communities of Russians and Ukrainians that would later identify themselves as Baptists first arose in unrelated strains in three widely separated regions of the Russian Empire.

The history of the first decades of the Russian Baptists is the story of groups in Transcaucasia, Ukraine, and St. Petersburg, gradually finding one another, acknowledging their spiritual kinship, and, by the early 1880s, seeking paths to joint activity. This process of mutual discovery and preliminary organizing was also one of denominational self-definition. The ...

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