 :There were no JWs in Siberia or anywhere else in 1891. JWs were an offshoot of the Bible Student movement and there was no group called 'Jehovah's Witnesses' prior to 1931. Semyon Kozlitsky, the individual cited in JW literature as suggested above, was apparently a 'JW' when he died in 1935, but he could not have been known as such in 1891. :Of course, that still suggests the presence of JWs in Russia prior to 1939, so perhaps the article should be rephrased to reflect that the minor presence of JWs in the Soviet Union was unknown to the government prior to 1939.  