What if you were ordered to give away everything you own, abstain from sex and show the Tsar you will not fight in his army by burning your guns? Peter Verigan issues these deadly edicts to his Russian Doukhobor followers whose obedience is fatal. When a Cossack soldier named Anton is sent to punish these pacifists, he risks his life to save his beloved Elena instead but betrayal sees him exiled to Canada and Elena held captive in Siberia. Edicts of a Man-God shows the murderous treachery that compelled Tolstoy to rescue thousands of lives condemned to death by the Tsar. Survivors settle in Canada and Pierre Berton says Peter Verigan is one of 125 important citizens who helped shape Canada.