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Vol 4, No 2 (2023)
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https://doi.org/10.15829/2686-973X-2023-2

Church history

4-20 423
Abstract

The features of development and the main vectors of the transformation of historical memory of the Old Believer segment of modern Russian society are analyzed. It is shown that the Old Believer intellectuals are active in the formation of their own versions of the collective historical memory. The author analyzes the perception of community experience by Old Believer intellectuals in collective memory, constructed the concepts of "self" and "sacrifice". The grand narrative used in writing the history of the Old Believers is analyzed also. It is considered how the culture of memory of the Russian Old Believers actualizes the political and ideological contradictions of society, actualizing collective historical traumas and images of the Other in the memorial spaces. It is shown that the model of the collective memory of the Old Believers stimulates the development of the politics of memory in a religiously-centric coordinate system, where the Church itself and its figures are imagined as the main participants in the historical process, becoming objects of memorial reflection and symbolic canonization in the identity of the Old Believers.

21-55 586
Abstract

The history of the pseudo-Apostles movement has come down to our time in the presentation of those who defeated them. The personalities of Gerard Segarelli and Fra Dolcino, the leaders of the pseudo-Apostles movement, can also be considered from the perspective of the presence of elements inherent in the lifetime cult of saints in the dogmatic Christian understanding, which are similar to the worship cults formed around the leaders of religious associations in the XIII-XIV centuries.

New findings

56-66 400
Abstract

The article introduces into scientific circulation a number of newly found historically valuable records on Russian old printed books, which contain new information from the history of the development of Siberia and the Urals. The conquest of these territories at the end of the XVI — XVII centuries was accompanied by the advancement of Cyrillic books to the east, including printed books, which were produced by the first Russian printers, and later by the Moscow Printing Yard. This fact is very vividly illustrated for the first time in historiography by the published book contribution of the last Khanty ruler of the principality of Koda Dmitry Alachev, which is also connected with the history of the Samarovsky Yam (the forerunner of Khanty-Mansiysk). The Stroganov dynasty played a key role in the conquest of the Ural-Siberian lands and the spread of Orthodox literature there, previously unknown book contributions and memorial records of representatives of which, in addition, are investigated in the article. No less valuable is the contribution inscription of the voevoda Prokopy Elizarov to the Kassianov monastery, which we discovered.

67-78 304
Abstract

The collection of the Museum of the Russian Icons contains icons of prophetic and forefatherly ranks, which form part of a certain iconostasis, dated in the first publication about 1700 (the end of the XVII century). The purpose of this article is to clarify the attribution of the monument based on information received from the previous owner and archival documents.

 



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ISSN 2686-973X (Print)
ISSN 2687-069X (Online)