Immediately other Spiritual Christian tribes in Kars and Erevan petitioned to follow the "Dukhobortsy" to Canada. A Russian businessman in Los Angeles, Peter A. Demens had been promoting California to immigrants from Russia for a decade, objected to "Dukhobortsy" settling in Canada, and personally diverted most all non-"Dukhobor" Spiritual Christians arriving after 1901 away from Canada to Los Angeles, while the Freedomites began protesting against the Canadian government. As large groups of "Pryguny", including the Shakarians and Klubnikins, began arriving in Los Angeles in 1905, most settled within a mile of the Azusa Street Revival as it was starting, and were delighted to meet spiritual faiths in America similar to theirs.