The Alcoholic Empire: Vodka & Politics in Late Imperial Russia
Patricia Herlihy
See Nadieszda Kizenko, "The Making of a Modern Saint: Ioann of Kronstadt and the Russian People, 1855-1917" (Ph.D. diss., Columbia University, 1995), p. 350. Some of his followers, known as Ioannites, were also devoted to abstinence ...