Vadim Redkin and Vladimir Vedernikov. Personal life Torop repudiated his first wife and married a nineteen-year-old who had lived with him since she was a girl of seven. He has six children from the two marriages. Vissarion has a younger half-sister, Irina. Though he has a biological mother named Nadyezhda, Vissarion considers Mary, mother of Jesus, as his own mother. See also Christianity in Russia List of messiah claimants List of people who have claimed to be Jesus Messiah complex References External links Russian-language Last Testament English-language website English-language Last Testament Vissarion Community International Portal Vissarion's Personal page (Russian) Orthodox church and Vissarion Film of BBC A Long Weekend with The Son of God (Filmmaker George Carey). Stanislav Krupar's photos of Vissarion community Globe and Mail: Jesus Lives The Washington Post: Novel Faiths Find Followers Among Russia's Disillusioned The Guardian on him Section in news about religion in Russia listed under "Sect in Siberia Sydney Morning Herald article ABC Nightline video and article Vice Guide to Travel: Jesus of Siberia Russian-language profile and critique Cult Leader Thinks He’s Jesus Reincarnated Jesus' Secluded Siberian Sect NY Times Long Arm of Russian Law Reaches Obscure Siberian Church 1961 births Living people People from Krasnodar Russian religious leaders Russian Christian mystics Self-declared messiahs Sects People adherents to christian new religious movements Founders of new religious movements 20th-century apocalypticists 21st-century apocalypticists Christian vegetarianism Reincarnation Cult leaders