NOT KNOWN FACTUAL STATEMENTS ABOUT INFLUENCE

Freemasons were active in Russia in the 18th century, Functioning to introduce Enlightenment beliefs; having said that, they were ever more suppressed because of the government.[136] Based on Ludwick Hass, Freemasonry was officially illegal in Tsarist Russia, but would later on be launched by exiles who returned following the 1905 revolution. These