Island

Spring: Some ethnographical details about Doukhobors: houses, clothes, works of Doukhobor art. Summer: The end and the beginning: killings in the tsarist Russia and arrival in the Caucasus and why they have continuously found themselves under pressure from the ethno-religious majority. Hopes for happy life after the community recognized it survived. Autumn: The prosperity and collapse. Soviet period, the best, but short for the community. Security and stability. The end of the 1980s - nationalism - Georgia only for Georgians. Fears and cleavage among the Doukhobor community. A large part of the community left for Russia. Those who decided to stay faced a fast decline, and a wave of immigrants from other parts of Georgia. Today: About 500 Doukhobors in two villages, the community used to count over 20,000 members. The majority of the few remaining young Doukhobors dreams of leaving for Russia, even at the cost of the community perishing.