12, 1858, and on October 29, 1858, the local governor requested the Holy Synod to send him to the Solovetsky Monastery correction facility. This request was granted on December 25, 1858, and in March 1859, he was then sentenced to walk in shackles from Tbilisi (Tiflis) (where he was later awaiting sentencing) to Solovki until he later reached the Solovetsky Monastery the following year on April 30, 1860. After sitting incarcerated for 9 years and 9 days, through the intercession of Count Dmitry Tolstoy the minister of Internal Affairs, due to inhuman treatment and not finding any fault in him, Rudomyotkin was then transferred to a more humane monastery prison in Suzdal, Central Russia, the Monastery of Saint Euthymius (also: Spaso-Evfimiev Monastery). He arrived there on May 27, 1869. In this prison, he sat for 8 more years until on May 13, 1877, as reported by the arch-priest, he died of an epileptic seizure. When this information was received by his congregants in Nikitino, they sent an elder of their church (Vassily V. Morozov) and Rudomyotkin's eldest son, Ermolai M. Rudomyotkin, to inquire further. On their arrival, they were not shown enough proof in their opinion to ascertain Rudomyotkin's death. They said on their arrival back to their home village of Nikitino, that the prison guard told them that they seek the living amongst the dead. Many of Rudomyotkin's followers to this day believe that he never died and will return at the end of the age. Modern history Before the Russian Revolution (1904–1912) a variety of Spiritual Christians fled to Los Angeles, diverted from following Doukhobors to Canada by Peter Demens, most for economic reasons and some inspired by the prophecies of Rudomyotkin and by the boy prophet Efim Gerasemovich Klubnikin. A variety of followers of Rudomyotkin survive to this day among independent congregations, mostly located in the North Caucasus (primarily Stavropol krai), Armenia, California, Oregon, and Australia. Rudomyotkin, while he spent 19 years in monastic correction facilities, wrote many small booklets on tea paper about 4 × 3½ in size. These booklets were then smuggled out of the monastery to his followers. Before the migration to America, a prayer book was published in 1906, which contained some of the songs and prayers of Rudomyotkin, this is the first time any of his writings were put into a book form. Members of his family brought his booklets with them