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Khlysts



Khlysts or Khlysty (Хлысты in Russian), was an underground sect in the late 17th, 18th, 19th and early 20th century that split off the Russian Orthodox Church and belonged to the Spiritual Christians (духовные христиане) tenency. 'Khlyst' is a distorted name, which comes from the word хлыст (khlyst), meaning "a whip"; the original name was a made-up word Христоверы (Khristovery, "Christ-believers") or Христы (Khristy).



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