 Missionaries from the Karakashi/Konioso were active in Poland in the first part of the 18th century and taught Jacob Frank (1726–1791), who later claimed to have inherited Russo's soul.Frank went on to create the Frankist sect, a different non-Dönmeh Sabbatean group in Eastern Europe.Yet another group, the Lechli, of Polish descent, lived in exile in Thessaloniki and Constantinople.