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Pravoslavie v Sibiri: Istoricheskii ocherk (Orthodoxy in Siberia: Historical essay) gives an overview of the expansion of the Orthodox faith in Siberia and the Russian Far East. During the 19th century, the Russian Orthodox Church expanded its missionary efforts among the native people of Siberia and the Russian Far East, in part to increase the influence of the Russian state over this territory. The book was written by Nestor (born Nikolai Alexandrovich Anisimov, 1884–1962), who founded the Kamchatka Orthodox Brotherhood in 1910 to support missionary work on the peninsula ...