№1-2024-04
DOI: 10.22281/2413-9912-2024-08-01-37-47
Voloskova M. N.
«THE DISTRICT EPISTLE» OF THE OLD BELIEVER BISHOPS, PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 24, 1862: BACKGROUND, AUTHOR AND CONTENT OF THE DOCUMENT
Currently, the history of the emergence of the «District Message» of the Old Believer bishops is little studied. There are also few scientific studies on the events related to the «District Message» of 1862, and the available ones are devoted to individual episodes and names. Insufficient knowledge of this topic leads to inaccuracies in research on spiritual and social thought of the late XIX—early XX century, leads to historiographical errors in the interpretation of certain phenomena. The article examines the prerequisites for the emergence and history of the publication of the «District Message» of the Old Believer bishops. After Metropolitan Ambrose of Bosno-Sarajevo joined the Old Believers and the restoration of the three-rank hierarchy among the Old Believers, a discussion began among the Old Believers-priests on acute issues of attitude to state power, the Greek-Russian Church and other Old Believers. The answers to some of these questions were published in 1862 in a document called The District Message. The «District Message» was prepared by the famous scribe I.G. Kabanov and after a small editorial revision signed by members of the Moscow Spiritual Council. Among the Old Believers of the Belokrinitsky hierarchy, the message caused discord, which in one form or another persisted for almost a hundred years and was expressed in the division of Old Believers into circle and non-circle.
Keywords: history of the church, Old Believers, the second half of the XIX century, the Belokrinitsky hierarchy, 1862, «District Message», «Bespopov notebooks», I.G. Kabanov (Xenos).
Smolensk State University (Russia)
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