Russian Spiritual Christians in Arizona

Maksimisty and Pryguny transformed into Dukh-i-zhizniki

• Arizona WWI Prygun Petition
  Petition of the Russian Colony of Sectarians, Spiritual Christian - Jumpers — 2 Letters: June 2 and 14, 1917
  
  
• Russians Chose Jailing in 1917 War-Religion Issue
  Glendale News — February 8, 1962
  
  
• Dukh-i-zhizniki in America, Chapter 3
  by John K. Berokoff, 1969
  
  
• 3-Part Article : Dukh-i-zhizniki in Arizona
  Arizona Republic —  May 23-25, 1977
  
  
• The Russian Pryguny: Glendale's Spirited Immigrants
  By Esta Portnoy for Dr. Luckman  — May 6, 1981
  
  
• The Russians Are Coming!  The Russians Are Coming!
  Elite Society Magazine — Spring 1982
  
  
• Russian graves halt construction on road project
  Phoenix Gazette — April 11, 1984
  
  
• School Board Balks at Land Purchase
  Arizona Republic —  January 25, 1991
  
  
• Celebrating the Glendale Centennial: 
  100 Years of Dreams, 1892-1992
  
  
• Variety of Ethnic Groups Helped Develop Glendale
  Arizona Republic  — June 12, 1992
  
  
• Russian Heritage Day
  Glendale Community College — November 14, 1997
  
  
• Pioneer Writing Book on Heritage
  Fae Papin-Veronin, Arizona Republic — November 21, 1997
  
  
• Russian community wants historic status for cemetery
  Glendale Star — July 9, 1998
  
  
• Effort Under Way to Make Cemetery Historic Landmark 
  Arizona Republic —  July 27, 1998
  
  
• Valley Landowners Facing End of Era
  The Business Journal Central  — September 22, 2000
  
  
• Industry Came to Glendale: History of the Beet Sugar Factory
  by Nancy Burgess, Sharlot Hall Museum — January 7, 2001
  
  
• Russian farmers arrive in Chino Valley
  by Kathleen Noon, Historian, Phoenix Public Library; updated by Andrei Conovaloff
  
  
• GPR to be used at Spiritual Christian Molokan Cemetery
  Glendale Star — July 12, 2001
  
  
• High-tech search fails to uncover cemetery's secrets
  Arizona Republic — July 25, 2001
  
  
• Spiritual Christian Molokan Cemetery Search: Some mysteries stay that way
  Arizona Republic —  September 1, 2001
  
  
• Amazing Corn Field Adventure
  Arizona Republic — October 26, 2001
  
  
• Congregation Church tradition debate sparks suit
  Arizona Republic   — Sept. 17, 2002
  
  
• Plenty of work for boy on early Glendale farm
  Arizona Republic —  May 2, 2003
  
  
• A Russian Farmers Village in Glendale, Arizona
  By Marshall R. Bowen, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia.
  A paper presented at the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers Annual Meeting,
  Arizona State University Downtown Center, Phoenix, Arizona, October 21, 2005.
  

• Two Russian Spiritual Christian Molokan Agricultural Villages in the Intermountain West (PDF 691K)  — Utah and Arizona
  by Dr. Marshall E. Bowen, Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, APCG Yearbook, Volume 68, 2006