The issue of interfaith interaction between the Old Believers and Islam in the works of A.S. Pushkin and L.N. Tolstoy
... clarified. In particular, A. S. Pushkin assigned a leading role in interreligious integration to official Orthodoxy, seeing in Old Believers purely destructive traits. L. N. Tolstoy, on the other hand, considered Old Believers as the best example of religious tolerance (despite the negative traits inherent in his followers), capable of productive and lasting interfaith collaboration.
Bytko S.S.
Old Believers, Koran, A. S. Pushkin, L. N. Tolstoy, Nekrasovites, Caucasus, Shamil, schism, Cossacks,...