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annually migrated to Siberia, a number equal to one-half the 

 immigrants yearly received by the United States from all 

 sources. They go in great colonies and are aided by the Rus- 

 sian Government by grants of land, loans of money, and low 

 transportation. New towns and cities have sprung up all 

 over Siberia, which are not even on our maps, thus rivalling 

 the American settlement of the Dakotas and the North-West. 

 Many Russian religious colonists, other than the Jews, have 

 come to America ; but often they are not wholly of Slavic 

 blood or are Little Russians (Ruthenians). It therefore hap- 

 pens that there are very few Russians in the United States 

 as compared with other nationalities. There are, according 

 to the latest estimates, about 75,000, chiefly in Pennsylvania 

 and the Middle West. There has been a Russian colony in 

 San Francisco for sixty years, and they are numerous in and 

 around New York City. 



The Russian Orthodox Church is well established here. 

 About a third of the Russians in the United States are op- 

 posed to it, being of the anti-government, semi-revolutionary 

 type of immigrant. But the others are enthusiastic in support 

 of their Church and their national customs, yet their Church 

 includes not only them but the Little Russians of Bukovina 

 and a very large number of Greek Catholics of Galicia and 

 Hungary whom they have induced to leave the Catholic and 

 enter the Orthodox Church. The Russian Church in the 

 United States is endowed by the Tsar and the Holy Governing 

 Synod, besides having the support of Russian missionary 

 societies at home, and is upon a flourishing financial basis in 

 the United States. It now (1911) has 83 churches and chapels 

 in the United States, 15 in Alaska, and 18 in Canada, making 

 a total of 126 places of worship, besides a theological semi- 

 nary at Minneapolis and a monastery at South Canaan, Penn- 

 sylvania. Their present clergy is composed of one archbishop, 

 one bishop, 6 proto-priests, 89 secular priests, 2 archimand- 

 rites, 2 hegumens, and 18 monastic priests, making a total 

 of 119, while they also exercise jurisdiction over the Servian 

 and Syrian Orthodox clergy besides. Lately they took over 

 a Greek Catholic sisterhood, and now have four Basilian nuns. 

 The United States is now divided up into the following six 

 districts of the Russian Church, intended to be the territory 

 for future dioceses : New York and the New England States ; 



