Schism in High Society: Granville Waldergrave Lord Radstock and His Followers

Lord Radstock was an English Christian evangelist who caused a considerable stir in Russian society in the mid-1870s. That a significant number of very influential people joined his movement alarmed conservatives in the Russian Orthodox Church and in government; that so many of their servants did so too aroused fears of undesirable egalitarianism and even revolutionary sentiment.