In late 2014 Verna Postnikioff, who visited Doukhobor heritage sites in Georgia in 2012 and Turkey in 2013. She decided to return in 2015 to visit the heritage sites again and invited anyone interested to join her.
Invitations were sent by e-mail, published in ISKRA (Sept-Dec 2014), by phone and via friends. In short:
Trip of a lifetime!!
To anyone interested in visiting our ancestral villages and sites in Old Russia, and current communities. A 3-week Heritage Tour is being planned for July 2015 to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia. Contact Verna Postnikioff, e-mail: heritagephotos @ ymail.com
By December 2014 more than a dozen responded from Canada and USA. Via e-mail the group decided to meet in Toronto and fly together to Istanbul, Turkey, for 2 days. Then fly to Kars, Turkey on July 1, 2015. A major goal is to visit all three 1895 Doukhobor Arms Burning sites.
By early Spring 2015 Verna had an enthusiastic group of 9 people joining her.
Heritage tourists in alphabetical order:
Linda and Jared Areshenkoff's arrived in Turkey on June 20 to tour the Cappadocia area.
Hannah Hadikan arrived in Turkey on June 21 hoping to interview and report about refugees from Syria.
10 people will start in Kars, but 2 will not complete the final 3rd week into Russia. Carrie Kalmakoff will only have time to visit Kars with her historian brother Jon for a week. Andrei Conovaloff will go direct to Kars 2 days early, and stay 2 more days in Tbilisi hoping to attend one of 3 Molokan congregations during a Sunday prayer meeting, before leaving to the USA.
Reports will be posted in this blog when possible during the tour.
Invitations were sent by e-mail, published in ISKRA (Sept-Dec 2014), by phone and via friends. In short:
Trip of a lifetime!!
To anyone interested in visiting our ancestral villages and sites in Old Russia, and current communities. A 3-week Heritage Tour is being planned for July 2015 to Turkey, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Russia. Contact Verna Postnikioff, e-mail: heritagephotos @ ymail.com
By December 2014 more than a dozen responded from Canada and USA. Via e-mail the group decided to meet in Toronto and fly together to Istanbul, Turkey, for 2 days. Then fly to Kars, Turkey on July 1, 2015. A major goal is to visit all three 1895 Doukhobor Arms Burning sites.
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| Planned tour route. |
By early Spring 2015 Verna had an enthusiastic group of 9 people joining her.
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| Half of the people on this Heritage Tour are from the Kootenays, British Columbia. |
Heritage tourists in alphabetical order:
- Jared Areshenkoff (son), Grand Forks, BC
- Linda Areshenkoff (mother), Castlegar, BC*
- Andrei Conovaloff, Arizona, USA* — historian, non-Doukhobor.
- Alex Ewashen (father), Creston, BC* — historian
- Brian Ewashen (son), Creston, BC — grade-4 teacher
- Hannah Hadikin, Nelson, BC — peace advocate, journalist
- Carrie Kalmakoff (sister), Calgary, AB - only Istanbul and Kars
- Jonathan Kalmakoff (brother), Regina SK — historian, Doukhobor Genealogy Website
- Verna Postnikoff, organizer, Burnaby, BC* — elementary school teacher
- Lisa Simenoff, Strathmore, AB*
Linda and Jared Areshenkoff's arrived in Turkey on June 20 to tour the Cappadocia area.
Hannah Hadikan arrived in Turkey on June 21 hoping to interview and report about refugees from Syria.
10 people will start in Kars, but 2 will not complete the final 3rd week into Russia. Carrie Kalmakoff will only have time to visit Kars with her historian brother Jon for a week. Andrei Conovaloff will go direct to Kars 2 days early, and stay 2 more days in Tbilisi hoping to attend one of 3 Molokan congregations during a Sunday prayer meeting, before leaving to the USA.
Reports will be posted in this blog when possible during the tour.
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