TF008 Saskatchewan: Music and Peace - a podcast by Mike Tod

It is said that Leo Tolstoy wrote his last great novel just to get enough money to pay for a sect of Russian pacifists, called The Doukhobors, to move to Canada. Persecuted in their homeland for refusing to fight for the Czar, The Doukhobors made the largest single mass migration in Canadian history in 1899 to Saskatchewan. In Canada, The Doukhobors found peace through their puritanical Christian lifestyle and transcendent style of choral music. In this episode, you’ll learn about real life events told through two fictional characters, beginning with their persecution in Russia, to their eventual move to Canada in the late 1800s, and hear the haunting music that the group created.

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