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"White Brotherhood"
The founder of the most famous cult '90s, Maria Devi Christos, after his release in Ukrainian colony moved to Moscow and became "an art space" Victoria Transfiguration.
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In 1990, the Donetsk Komsomol instructor Marina Tsvigun met her future husband, Yuri Krivonogov, together they have created perhaps the largest and most well-known totalitarian sect in the territory of the former USSR. Marina declared herself "Maria Devi Christos" and called on all to join in the "White Brotherhood" in front of the approaching end of the world.
In almost all major cities of the Soviet Union began their missionary activity "White Brotherhood", young men and women in white sheets, preached renunciation of property and the imminent end of the world.
When the mass hysteria began to assume alarming proportions, Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against the founders of the "White Brotherhood" on suspicion of fraud, but they fled from persecution in Poland. In September 1993, the couple secretly returned to Ukraine. November 10th, 1993 at the Sofia Square in Kiev was to take place the descent of the Holy Spirit. 25 members of the religious community led by Tsvigun Krivonogov and entered the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. The police, reinforced riot police "Berkut", drove them out of the church and arrested.
Marina Tsvigun was convicted by the Kiev City Court judgment of 9 February 1996 to four years' imprisonment in a penitentiary colony. Out on the Marina will Tsvigun curse betrayed her ex-husband and disappeared.
But not for long. C 2006 the founder of the "White Brotherhood" is living in Moscow. under the name "Victoria's Transfiguration." Under this name, it has created a new organization of space Poliiskusstva Third Millennium holds annual exhibitions of his paintings and even taking part in the programs of the Russian TV channels.
The basis of the new organization are former "white brothers", but many converts do not even know about the past of their spiritual leader.
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3 photos via Infosmi
In 1990, the Donetsk Komsomol instructor Marina Tsvigun met her future husband, Yuri Krivonogov, together they have created perhaps the largest and most well-known totalitarian sect in the territory of the former USSR. Marina declared herself "Maria Devi Christos" and called on all to join in the "White Brotherhood" in front of the approaching end of the world.
In almost all major cities of the Soviet Union began their missionary activity "White Brotherhood", young men and women in white sheets, preached renunciation of property and the imminent end of the world.
When the mass hysteria began to assume alarming proportions, Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case against the founders of the "White Brotherhood" on suspicion of fraud, but they fled from persecution in Poland. In September 1993, the couple secretly returned to Ukraine. November 10th, 1993 at the Sofia Square in Kiev was to take place the descent of the Holy Spirit. 25 members of the religious community led by Tsvigun Krivonogov and entered the Saint Sophia Cathedral in Kiev. The police, reinforced riot police "Berkut", drove them out of the church and arrested.
Marina Tsvigun was convicted by the Kiev City Court judgment of 9 February 1996 to four years' imprisonment in a penitentiary colony. Out on the Marina will Tsvigun curse betrayed her ex-husband and disappeared.
But not for long. C 2006 the founder of the "White Brotherhood" is living in Moscow. under the name "Victoria's Transfiguration." Under this name, it has created a new organization of space Poliiskusstva Third Millennium holds annual exhibitions of his paintings and even taking part in the programs of the Russian TV channels.
The basis of the new organization are former "white brothers", but many converts do not even know about the past of their spiritual leader.
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