Photo by @markosian -- In the distant peak of Georgia, near the border with Turkey and Armenia, I met Uncle Kolya, who belongs to a remote pacifist sect, known as the Doukhobors. They’re a Christian sect that believes God resides within every person, rendering the need for the church—icons, buildings, rituals and priests. In the 1840s, Nicolas I exiled nearly 5,000 of them to the edge of the Russian empire. They founded eight villages— the largest of which was Gorelovka in Georgia. All these years later, only a few hundred remain. #georgia by natgeo

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