Alexander Shilov

Background

He was born to a family of peasants of Penza gubernia.

Career

Foreign castrating 9 peasants Shilov was exiled to Riga but continued preaching of his heresy. In 1789 for castrating 12 soldiers in Riga, Shilov was beaten by batons and imprisoned to the Dunamond fortress, in 1797 he was transferred to the Shlisselburg Fortress but still advocated castrating to the prison guards as well as stated that Peter III of Russia is alive and is the true tsar of Russia. At the night from January 5 to January 6 Old Style in the Calendar (in Great Britain before 1752) 1799 (by other sources from January 5 to January 6 Old Style in the Calendar (in Great Britain before 1752) 1800 he was executed.

Achievements

• He found the founder of the Skoptzy sect Kondraty Selivanov and became an active proponent and preacher of the new section