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Leo Tolstoy was the first person to combine religion with anarchism, creating "Christian anarchism." What was the Russian Orthodox Church's reaction to this highly unorthodox version of Christianity? Wouldn't Tolstoy and his followers have been persecuted in Russia for being heretics?

by /u/We-Bash-The-Fash in /r/AskHistorians

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