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Russian sect celebrates museum reopening near Blaine Lake
Doukhobor Dugout House, with COVID-19 public health restrictions loosening.“To be able to open slowly but surely, we’re pretty excited,” the museum’s founder said.On Saturday morning, Cheveldayoff, dressed in traditional Russian clothing, welcomed visitors and Saskatchewan’s Lieutenant-Governor Russ Mirasty to the site of one of the first Doukhobor settlements, near Blaine Lake, Sask. Coronavirus: National historic site in Saskatchewan not reopening this season The Doukhobors are a pacifist religious sect who fled Tsarist Russia at the end of the 19th century and settled in Canada.The Dugout House was one of the first places they lived in Saskatchewan.