Criticism
After the 1905 Revolution the false followers of Father John, so-called the Ioannity, formed an underground religious organization that was both deeply anti-socialist and antisemitic, supporting the pogroms of the Black Hundreds movement. Though Father John publicly denounced the 1903 massacre of Jews in Kishinev, he later recanted and accused the Jews of causing the violence.
Among emigre Russians, the canonization of John of Kronstadt was criticized by Alexandra Lvovna Tolstaya, the daughter of Leo Tolstoy, because of the priest's negative stance toward her father's apostasy from the Church.
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—Richard Holt Hutton (1826–1897)
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—Mary Pickford (1893–1979)