Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village ÒAbode of DawnÓ, VissarionÕs base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. After time spent in the Soviet Army, Sergey Torop had been working as a traffic policeman in the small Siberian town of Minusinsk until he was made unemployed. Suddenly something awoke inside him, he says, and he instantly knew that he was the second coming of Christ - 2,000 years after he was first crucified. He took a new name - ÒVissarionÓ which means "he who gives new lifeÓ., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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21.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village ÒAbode of DawnÓ, VissarionÕs base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village ÒAbode of DawnÓ, VissarionÕs base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A morning prayer, the followers are singing hymns to Vissarion., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .russischer Winter .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The Vissarionite village of Petropavlovka. The new religion called ÒThe United FaithÓ combines elements of the Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism, and ecological values. The aim of the group is to unite all other religions on Earth., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. An old photo of Sergey Torop when he was going to start his career as Jesus of Siberia, © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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21.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Vissarionites praying at night. The settlement called the "Abode of Dawn" is the heart of VissarionÕs realm. At the ÒcityÓ centre stands a carved wooden angel, wings outstretched, and capped by the Vissarionites' symbol - a cross inside a circle., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .eingeschneites Haus. verschneit. Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The average maximum winter snow depth is up to 3 meters. A village of more than 250 people called ÒThe Abode of DawnÓ is the heart of VissarionÕs community. The only source of electricity are solar panels. The village was meant to be an experimental ecological settlement. For construction of the settlement the local administration allocated 250 hectares of wooded reserves. Nowadays the village still doesn't appear on any map., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .im Fluss Wäsche waschen .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A woman is washing laundry in the river. In winter the temperature frequently reaches 40 below zero., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A morning prayer, the followers are singing hymns to Vissarion., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .russische Kirche, Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The temple of the Church of The Last Testament in the Vissarionite village of Petropavlovka. The new religion called The United Faith combines elements of the Russian Orthodox Church with Buddhism, apocalypticism, collectivism, and ecological values. The aim of the group is to unite all other religions on Earth., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village ÒAbode of DawnÓ, VissarionÕs base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Vissarion is addressing the crowd on his birthday. "To do what I'm called to do, I need to have a human body," he said. "I live in a body in order to bring man closer to God.This is the first time I have been needed in 2,000 years. This is a critical point. Only when mankind becomes one family on Earth will the doors to the universe become open to them.", © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village Abode of Dawn, Vissarions base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village ÒAbode of DawnÓ, VissarionÕs base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Vissarion is blessing bread.Brot wird gesegnet. Segen., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers make a pilgrimage to Vissarion on his 49th birthday. They have to cover a distance of 50 kilometers starting from Petropavlovka and heading to the village Abode of Dawn, Vissarions base and the heart of the Community., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .beleuchtetes Haus im Winter nachts. Nacht. Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A wooden house in the Vissarion Community at night., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers are very zealous when talking about their Teacher. "When I saw Vissarion, my heart said, 'This is him. This is the one, the teacher I have been waiting for all my life,' " said Lena Oshepkova, a former Red Cross translator from the Russian port city of Murmansk. "Yes, I believe he is Jesus Christ. I know it, like I know I'm breathing, and that's itÓ said Andris an architect from Lithuania., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers of Vissarion have given up all material goods for the community. "In order to accept me, people must give up everything they own," Vissarion requires. Money is rejected, as well as bartering., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A settlement called the "Abode of Dawn" is the heart of VissarionÕs realm. A total of 14 star-shaped routes have stretch from the ÒcityÓ centre with names like "Milk Street," "Happy Rain Street," or "Singing Mountain Street." Every day at 7am, the menfolk and a few women emerge from their homes to stream towards the centre. This is a daily ritual. The faithful kneel on short wooden planks, murmur prayers and sing hymns. Then they join hands in a circle around the stones and raise their heads to the mountain, from where they believe Vissarion is watching., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.02.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers of Vissarion have given up all material goods for the community. "In order to accept me, people must give up everything they own," Vissarion requires. Money is rejected, as well as bartering., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Vasiliy Berezin, a former engineer from Moscow is constructing a private airplane at his home in the Vissarionite village of Petropavlovka. ÒWhen the plane is finished, I want to fly to the Teacher he said., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Every day at 8 PM the followers of Vissarion sit down for meditation and prayer, staring at the photograph of Vissarion. They try to pick up the positive energy from the Teacher which emanates from his photographical image., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Framed photos of Vissarion hang in hundreds of small wooden homes. His aphorisms are learned by heart and repeated daily., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. A family of Oldis Lazis, a follower from Latvia. They have 6 children The birth rate in the Vissarion Community is much higher than in an average Russian village., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Vissarion, his wife and 6 children live in a big chalebt on the top of the mountain along with his right-hand man Vadim Redkin and 5 other families who service them. His house has three floors and a majestic panoramic view down to the village and wilderness beyond. The teacher spends most of his days in the house painting and praying, as his followers say., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The followers of Vissarion have given up all material goods for the community. "In order to accept me, people must give up everything they own," Vissarion requires. Money is rejected, as well as bartering., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Women are weaving baskets from cane in a small workshop. Assets turned over by followers are the main income of the group, but it also earns money from sales of handicrafts, such as woodcarvings, knitting, pottery, weaving and oil pressed from cedar nuts., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

20.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. Every day at 8 PM the followers of Vissarion sit down for meditation and prayer, staring at the photograph of Vissarion. They try to pick up the positive energy from the Teacher which emanates from his photographical image., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010

Vissarion

Russland, Sibirien, Vissarion. Wissarion .Spirituelle Öko-Gemeinschaft Ökopolis Tiberkul in der Taiga .Ökosiedlung. Sekte .Russia, Siberia, Krasnoyarsk region. The fundamentals of The Last Testament (Vissarion's Bible) is a compulsory subject at the local school. The school curriculum is designed in such a way that all the negative information and images, dealing with destruction and wars, are eliminated from the lessons., © 2010 Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

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Sergey Kozmin / Agentur Focus

19.01.2010