also women, among them wives and daughters of the clergy, as well as "invited guests," but everyone of them young and beautiful.
It is true that during these "sessions" singing "rehearsals" took place—all kinds of songs were sung, among them some very obscene ones both in English and in Russian. Very often these "conferences" kept the conferees "busy" until the wee hours of the morning. During these religious "revivals" the sex problem was readily
Archbishop Platon Roshdestwensky, Following
the Steps of Archbishop Nemolevsky
solved. The participants were all completely naked—after the fashion common in the Garden of Eden. They were sitting in one of two ways: either a "Father" had a nude Eve on his naked lap, or a "Father" sat on the knees of one of the women, in a posture which made it convenient for him to suck her breasts. On the table, instead
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