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100	1		_aStretton, Hesba, _d1832-1911
245	1	0	_aIn the hollow of His hand
264		1	_aSalt Lake City, UT : _bProject Gutenberg, _c2025
300			_a1 online resource : _bmultiple file formats
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aRelease date is 2025-07-31
520			_a"In the hollow of His hand" by Hesba Stretton is a novel written in the late 19th century. It depicts the persecution of Russia’s Stundists, focusing on a devout farming family whose faith in non-resistance is tested when authorities seize their children to raise in the Orthodox Church. Centered on Alexis Ivanoff, his son Michael, and his little daughter Velia—with the compassionate yet constrained priest Father Cyril set against the harsh Starosta Okhrim—the story explores conscience, courage, and the suffering of women and children under coercive religion. The opening of the novel frames its theme with a preface on Christians persecuting Christians, then follows Michael as he accompanies his dying mother in Scotland and returns to his father on the Ukrainian steppe amid rising hostility. Alexis instructs him in Stundist non-resistance; they visit secret allies in Kovylsk and face cold village ostracism at home. Michael starts a small school for Stundist children, leads a hidden forest meeting, and is discovered—gently—by Father Cyril, who soon receives a devastating order to remove all Stundist children (ages two to ten) into Orthodox homes. Despite his pleas at the consistory, the order stands; Velia and little Clava are placed tenderly with the priest, while other families are torn apart. The men are then arrested, winter closes in, and Michael and Sergius shoulder farm work before secretly sledging to Kovylsk for news, where they learn of unyielding interrogations and debate the icon question with the fearful sympathizer Markovin. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534			_pOriginally published: _cLondon: The Religious Tract Society, 1897
653			_aChildren's stories
653			_aChristian fiction
653			_aRussia -- Juvenile fiction
653			_aStundists -- Juvenile fiction
700	1		_aMorgan, Walter Jenks, _d1847-1924
856	4	0	_uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76597
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