The Patriarch Nikon’s Museum in the New Jerusalem Monastery: the 145th Anniversary of Its Foundation

2020 ◽  
pp. 111-127
Author(s):  
Светлана Измайловна Баранова
Keyword(s):  
Spiritual Development ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
New Jerusalem ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century

Статья посвящена истории созданного в 1874 г. в Воскресенском Ново-Иерусалимском монастыре музея Святейшего патриарха Никона, а также истории возрождения музея в новом качестве, ставшего частью программы современного восстановления Ново-Иерусалимского монастыря. Рассмотрена роль устроителя музея архимандрита Леонида (Кавелина) (1822-1891) - настоятеля обители в 1869-1877 гг., выдающегося русского историка, историографа Воскресенского монастыря, собирателя его древностей и исследователя его архивов. Также представлен опыт построения экспозиции нового Музея патриарха Никона, использующий объединение историко-хронологического принципа с художественно-образным, коллекционного - с мемориальным, тематическим и ансамблевым. Восстановление в монастыре музея в новом качестве должно подчеркнуть мемориальную сущность обители как явления русской церковной археологии XIX в. Экспозиция, размещенная в залах музея, должна создать богатый информационновизуальный базис, оставить в памяти посетителя глубокий эмоциональный след, дать пищу для духовного развития и материал для общих размышлений о судьбах Святых Мест христианства, параллелях в жизни России и Святой Земли, колоссальном вкладе патриарха Никона в строительство величественного здания Русской Православной Церкви и зарождавшейся Российской империи. The article is dedicated to the history of the Museum of His Holiness Patriarch Nikon, founded in 1874 in the Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery as well as the history of the revival of the museum in a new quality, which became part of the restoration program of the New Jerusalem Monastery. The role of the organizer of the museum, archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin) (1822-1891), the abbot of the monastery in 1869-1877, an outstanding Russian historian, the Resurrection Monastery historiographer, a collector of its antiquities and a researcher of its archives, is considered. Also, it is said about the experience of forming a collection of the new Patriarch Nikon’s Museum implementing historical-chronological, artistic-figurative, memorial, thematic and ensemble principles of the collection. Anew quality restoration done in the monastery museum should emphasize the memorial importance of the monastery as a phenomenon of Russian church archeology of the XIX century. The exposition located in the museum halls should create a rich informational and visual basis, have a deep emotional impact in the visitor’s memory, provide food for spiritual development and material for general reflection on the fate of the Holy Chrisitan Places, establish parallels in the life of Russia and the Holy Land, mark an enormous contribution of Patriarch Nikon in the construction of a magnificent building of the Russian Orthodox Church and the nascent Russian Empire.

scholarly journals Eurasianists on the Role of Orthodoxy and the Church in the National State Development of Russia

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 254-268
Author(s):  
Sergey V. Bazavluk
Keyword(s):  
Political Identity ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Catholic Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Church

The author analyzes the ideological views of a group of Russian migrants of the fi rst wave, known as Eurasianists, including N.S. Trubetskoy, P.N. Savitsky, N.N. Alekseeva, L.N. Karsavina and others. The author discusses fundamental elements of the classical Eurasianist program, such as the role of the Orthodox Church and the state in the life of Russia and its society, their attitude to Roman Catholic culture, and their place in dialogue with other religions. In addition, other important elements of Eurasianism noted here are the ideas of pan-Eurasian nationalism, ideocracy, the spatial borders of Russia-Eurasia, the symphonic personality, a guarantee state. These issues are associated directly with the authors of these concepts and with Eurasianism in general. The author demonstrates the continuity with the teachings of the Slavophiles and highlights the special attention that the Eurasians paid to the traditional cultures of Russia. Also noted is the interest in Eurasianism of church circles in exile in Europe. At the same time, the Eurasianists’ critical vies on the “Petersburg period” in the history of the Russian church are highlighted, which are also implicit in Eurasianism as an independent ideological and philosophical line of thought of Russian emigration in the fi rst half of the twentieth century. An attempt is made to show how, through conservative thought, Eurasians tried to form a new type of political identity. This ideological direction with an emphasis on spirituality and special institutions was considered by Eurasians as a prototype of the future statehood of Russia as opposed to the Soviet-Marxist system. In the context of the contemporary Eurasian integration (EAEU), of the current role of the Russian Orthodox Church and external political manipulations around the role of the Moscow Patriarchate, the theoretical views of the Eurasians take on a new dimension.

scholarly journals Everyday Life of the Russian Nuns in the Holy Land at the Time of Changes in the Middle East, 1940s–1950s

2021 ◽  
pp. 190-200
Author(s):  
N.A. Beliakova
Keyword(s):  
Everyday Life ◽  
The State ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

This study aims at providing an overview of the everyday life of Russian nuns in Palestine after World War II. This research encompassed the following tasks: to analyze the range of ego-documents available today, characterizing the everyday life and internal motivation of women in choosing the church jurisdiction; to identify, on the basis of written sources, the most active supporters of the Moscow Patriarchate to examine the nuns’ activity as information agents of the Russian Orthodox Church and Soviet government; to characterize the actors influencing the everyday life of the Russian nuns in the context of the creation of the state of Israel and new borders dividing the Holy Land; to present the motives and instruments of influence employed by the representatives of both secu-lar and church diplomacies in respect to the women leading a monastic life; to describe consequences of including the nuns into the sphere of interest of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR; to show the specific role of “Russian women” in the context of the struggle for securing positions of the USSR and the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in the region. The sources for the study were prodused by the state (correspondence between the state authorities, meeting notes) and from the religious actors (letters of nuns to the church authorities, reports of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, memoirs of the clergy). By combining the methods of micro-history and history of the everyday life with the political history of the Cold War, the study examines the agency of the nuns — a category of women traditionally unnoticeable in the political history. Due to the specificity of the sources, the study focuses exclusively on a group of the nuns of the Holy Land who came under the jurisdiction of the Moscow Patri-archate. The majority of the Russian-speaking population of Palestine in the mid-1940s were women in the status of monastic residents (nuns and novices) and pilgrims, and in the 1940s–1950s, they were drawn into the geopolitical combinations of the Soviet Union. The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem, staffed with representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church, becomes a key institution of influence in the region. This article shows how elderly nuns became an object of close attention and even funding by the Soviet state. The everyday life of the nuns became directly dependent on the activities of the Soviet agencies and Soviet-Israeli relations after the arri-val of the Soviet state representatives. At the same time, the nuns became key participants in the inter-jurisdictional conflicts and began to act as agents of influence in the region. The study analyzes numerous ego-documents created by the nuns themselves from the collection of the Council on the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church under the USSR Council of Ministers. The study shows how nuns positioned themselves as leading a monastic life in the written correspondence with the ROC authorities and staff of the Soviet MFA. The instances of influence of different secular authorities on the development of the female monasticism presented here point to promising research avenues for future reconstruction of the history of women in the Holy Land based on archival materials from state departments, alternative sources should also be found. The study focused on the life of elderly Russian nuns in the Holy Land and showed their activity in the context of the geopolitical transformations in the Near East in the 1940s–1950s.

scholarly journals DIOCESAN ARCHPRIESTS’ ANNUAL REPORTS AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION ABOUT THE VOLOGDA DIOCESE HISTORY OF THE LATE 19TH — EARLY 20TH CENTURIES

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-60
Author(s):  
Е.С. Ульянова
Keyword(s):  
Information Source ◽  
Annual Reports ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Source Of Information

В статье исследуются ежегодные отчеты правящих архиереев о состоянии епархий Святейшему Правительствующему Синоду как важнейший источник по истории Русской православной церкви синодального периода. Цель статьи — структурный анализ ежегодных отчетов вологодских архиереев о состоянии Вологодской епархии во второй половине XIX века. Предпринята попытка на частных примерах оценить информативный потенциал каждого раздела отчета. Делается вывод о ежегодных епархиальных отчетах как достаточно информативном источнике, содержащем ценные и многоплановые сведения о жизнедеятельности Русской православной церкви в епархиях. Ставится вопрос о специфике данного вида источника и о влиянии личности правящего архиерея на содержание отчета. The article investigates annual reports prepared by diocesan archpriests to inform the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church about diocesan life as an important source of information about history of the Russian Orthodox Church governed by the Holy Synod. The aim of the article is to structurally analyze annual reports prepared by Vologda archpriests in the late 19thcentury. The author of the article attempts to assess the informative potential of various sections of these reports. The author concludes that diocesan archpriests’ annual reports are a rather fruitful source. They contain information about eparchial practices of the Russian Orthodox Church. The article investigates peculiar features of this information source and assesses the role of archpriest’s influence on the content of reports.

scholarly journals The keeper of Church Books: the biography of E.A. Karmanov in the context of the Soviet Era in the History of the Russian Orthodox Church

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 53-62
Author(s):  
Irina V. Lobanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Complex Process ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

In the article through the prism of the fate of E.A. Karmanov, a church publisher, editor and bibliophile, shows the complex process of survival of Russian church history science in the Soviet period. Deprived of the possibility of development, it turned out to be focused on the task of preserving its pre-revolutionary heritage and new manuscript evidence, which was to become material for future research. Under these conditions, the role of collectors and keepers of the book culture of the church became very important, as was E.A. Karmanov (1927 1998).

scholarly journals The problem of the effectiveness of social service of the Russian Orthodox Church in penitentiary institutions in the modern history of Russia

2019 ◽  
pp. 70-74
Author(s):  
Vladislav A. Tulyanov
Keyword(s):  
Social Service ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Church

The article deals with the interaction of the Russian Orthodox Church (hereinafter, the ROC) and the penitentiary system of Russia. The author addresses the problem of the social role of the ROC in penitentiary institutions. The purpose of the article is to analyse the effectiveness of Church social service in penitentiary institutions of modern Russia. The basis of the research methodology is the analysis of statistical information of the Federal penitentiary service and social projects of the ROC on the effectiveness of the Church penitentiary service. It is concluded that the activities of the ROC in the penal system has significant positive outcomes that are associated primarily with the problem of improving relations among specific population of penitentiary establishments, as well as re-socialisation of former prisoners and prevention of offenses, which is an important element in the fight against general crime rate in the country.

Pinsk General Congregation of Orthodox Clergy in 1791 as the First Experience of Hostile Actions of the Phanar Against Russian Orthodox Church

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 ◽  
pp. 277-292
Author(s):  
Protopriest Alexander Romanchuk
Keyword(s):  
Church History ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Region ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Russian Empire ◽  
Separatist Movement

The article examines the little-known event in the Church history of the Western Russian region – the Pinsk General Congregation of 1791, which put on its agenda the issue of the subordination of the Orthodox population in Poland to the authority of the Patriarch of Constantinople. The author traces the premises, course and significance of this meeting of the Orthodox clergy of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, as well as the role of the Patriarch of Constantinople Neophytos VII in its holding and his guiding motives. It is concluded that: 1) the Pinsk Congregation was an unlawful assembly from the canonical point of view, and it served to intensify the actions of the Russian Empire against the Polish statehood; 2) the motives for the support of the Congregation on the part of the leadership of the Patriarchate of Constantinople were the idea of the universal power of Constantinople in the Orthodox world, and also the Greek nationalism; 3) the assistance to the separatist movement of the Orthodox clergy in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealths in 1791 became, chronologically, the first experience of Phanar’s hostile actions against Russian Orthodox Church.

scholarly journals Monastic and temple sacristies during the prerevolutionary period

2021 ◽  
pp. 155-160
Author(s):  
Larisa Sergeevna Alekseeva
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Art ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
Further Development ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
The Church

Throughout many centuries, the Russian Orthodox Church has been creating and preserving inestimable historical and cultural heritage, including the works of the ancient Russian art, ceremonial ware, and other artifacts. The second half of the XIX century marks the surge in preservation of monuments, and the Church takes active part in such activity. For the purpose of preservation of ecclesiastical antiquity were established the church museums. In the pre-revolutionary period, the museums functioned on the premises of theological academies and seminaries, dioceses, temples and monasteries, and other structural divisions of the Russian Orthodox Church. The group of church museums of that time is poorly studied. The subject of this research is the sacristy collections of temples and monasteries. On the example of sacristies under the major temples and monasteries of Novgorod, Pskov, Yaroslavl and Rostov, the article provides a retrospective overview of the activity of the large museums of antiquities. Based on the survived description of sacristies, the author analyzes the content of their collections. The content of such compilations was affected by the cultural and commercial ties of the cities. For example, the Novgorod sacristies preserve the items associated to the spread of Orthodoxy in Rus’, while the Yaroslavl museums of antiquities feature the monuments of later period. Based on the activity of the aforementioned collections, the conclusion is made that they carried out the functions of discovery, preservation, study, and translation of cultural heritage. Therefore, the prerevolutionary monastic and temple museums of antiquities performed the role of church museums. Further development of the group of church museums on the premises of temples and monasteries was hindered by the historical transformations of the XX century.

scholarly journals THE ARCHIVE OF THE SOLOVETSKY MONASTERY IN THE SCIENTIFIC PATH OF THE PERM UNIVERSITY`S PROFESSOR BORIS D. GREKOV

2021 ◽  
pp. 80-88
Author(s):  
N. A. Marchenko ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian History ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
New Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Solovetsky Monastery ◽  
Perm Region

The archive of the Solovetsky Stavropegial Monastery is a unique monument of Russian medieval writing and a valuable source on the history of monastic land ownership in the 15th – 17th centuries. The Archaeographic Commis-sion and the Holy Synod saved the monastery`s archive in 1917, ensured its preservation and secured scholars’ ac-cess to the documents. The article focuses on Professor Boris Dmitrievich Grekov (1882–1953) and his contribution to the evacuation of the Solovetsky archive from Arkhangelsk to Perm along with its preservation from destruction. Grekov was the founder of the Department of Russian History at the Perm University, a member of the USSR Acad-emy of Sciences, and was honored by getting the Stalin award. Grekov’s personal files deposited in the State Ar-chives of the Perm Region are the main source for the research. The documents help better understand the scientific and pedagogic work of this outstanding scholar in Perm. In addition to Grekov’s contribution, the article highlights the role of the Perm diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and its head, the archbishop of Perm and Kungur An-dronik (Nikolsky), in rescuing the documents of the Solovetsky monastery and delivering them to Perm. The author introduces new information into the scientific circulation that sheds the light on the activity of the scientific corpora-tion of the Perm University during the years of the revolution and the Civil War. The author concludes that the preservation of the unique monument of medieval Russian history (the archive of the Solovetsky Monastery) was a joint effort of the Perm University and Perm Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The leading role in this rescue goes to the scholars of the Perm University and personally to Boris Grekov

scholarly journals Festive Epistles of St. Ambrose of Optina: the Linguo-stylistic Aspect

2020 ◽  
pp. 110-125
Author(s):  
Мелхиседек Артюхин ◽  
Алексей Ишков ◽  
Наталия Андреевна Егорова ◽  
Анна Анатольевна Цветкова
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century ◽  
The Relationship

В статье рассмотрены праздничные письма-поздравления прп. Амвросия Оптинского (1812-1894), составляющие часть его эпистолярного наследия. Описаны основные отличия данного вида писем от индивидуальных писем старца к частным лицам, описана история создания, проанализированы основные композиционные и стилистические особенности посланий, а также прослежена их связь с жанром церковной проповеди. Статья раскрывает значение праздничных посланий прп. Амвросия в эпистолярном наследии Русской Православной Церкви. The article «Festive Epistles of St. Ambrose of Optina: linguistic and stylistic aspect» describes the structure of festive epistles by reverend Amvrosy Optinskiy (1812-1894). It denotes the main differs of this epistolary type and private letters, tells about the purpose and history of creation, and also describes it’s stylistic features. The article traces the relationship between festive epistles and the genre of sermon in XIX century. The material of the article allows to get a detailed idea of this epistolary type and it’s meaning in the spiritual heritage of the Russian Orthodox Church.

scholarly journals Joining the Uniate in the Orthodox Church (1839): Origins, course, consequences

1999 ◽  
pp. 14-22
Author(s):  
Yuliya Khytrovsʹka
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Xviii Century ◽  
History Of ◽  
Xix Century

The current complex inter-confessional relations in Ukraine compel the researcher to address their origins. In view of this, the issue raised by us is of increased interest. One of the most notable events in the history of the n Orthodox Church of the XIX century. was joining it in 1839 by the Uniate. The elimination of the union and the conversion of the Uniates to the fold of the Russian Orthodox Church, and at the same time the weakening of the Polish landlord's land ownership and closely related Catholic church, attempted to implement autocracy in the second half of the XVIII century. In 1794, Catherine II issued an order to eliminate the union, but did not have time to implement it.

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