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Relationship and Source of Whitings Used as a Painting Ground in Icons From Polish Museum Collections Based on Their Calcareous Nannofossil Content

Archaeometry, Volume 68, Issue 1, Page 132-143, February 2026.
ABSTRACT In icon painting, chalk whiting is key to creating a gesso ground, providing a smooth, absorbent surface for paint. Calcareous nannofossils, tiny marine skeletons found in chalk, are an ideal tool for analyzing the origin of an icon's chalk ground, often the only reliable information about where the icon came from.
Mariusz Kędzierski, Mirosław P. Kruk
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SOCIAL ACTIVITY OF RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN 1990-2000S: CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS AND EXPERIENCE OF REALIZATION

RUDN Journal of Russian History, 2014
This article deals with the essential characteristics of the social activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1990-2000s. There are characterized priorities, shape, effective practice of social work and examined the conceptual foundations of the ...
M A Simonova
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Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) and His Church Activity during the Khrushchev’s Persecution (1958–1962) [PDF]

Вестник Екатеринбургской духовной семинарии
The article discusses the outstanding Russian missionary, “Apostle of Kamchatka” Metropolitan Nestor (Anisimov) and his church ministry in Novosibirsk diocese (1956–1958) and Kirovgrad doicese (1959–1962) in the period of persecution of the Russian ...
Metropolitan Isidor (Roman V. Tupikin)
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The Martyrdom of Nadezhda Kurchenko: Soviet Hero Cults and the Spiritual Turn in Late Socialism

The Russian Review, Volume 85, Issue 1, Page 69-87, January 2026.
Abstract This article argues that the spiritual turn in Soviet atheism under Brezhnev provided a meaningful solution to the problems of producing heroes when self‐sacrificing martyrs were losing their appeal. To support this claim, I examine the story of Nadezhda Kurchenko, a nineteen‐year‐old flight attendant killed by two hijackers on an Aeroflot ...
Steven E. Harris
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Rola czynnika religijnego w stosunkach międzynarodowych. Przypadek jurysdykcji prawosławnych w Estonii

Politeja
THE ROLE OF THE RELIGIOUS FACTOR IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS: THE CASE OF ORTHODOX JURISDICTIONS IN ESTONIA The research objective of this article was to analyse the role of the religious factor in international relations using the example of the ...
Dorota Maj
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«Belonging not to the roots of levit and not to an ecclesiastical school, i have always admired our ecclesiastical estate …» [PDF]

Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия ИИ. История, история Русской Православной Церкви, 2012
The correspondence between two representatives of Russian church diaspora - the professor of St. Sergius Orthodox Theological Institute in Paris Archimandrite Cyprian (Kern) and the Protopresbyter of Russian Orthodox Church Abroad BasilVinogradov -covers
Sukhova Nataliia
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Historical memory preservation of the Russian Orthodox Church contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War

Вестник Тамбовского университета. Серия: Гуманитарные науки, 2019
We present the key directions in the activity of the Russian Orthodox Church in preserving and restoring the historical memory of the Great Patriotic War. We consider the main stages and aspects of the church's activity in this direction.
D. A. Buyukli
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The Separation of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church From the Moscow Patriarchate as a Reflection of Ukrainian State Identity

Journal of Global Strategic Studies
This article discusses the formation of Ukrainian state identity in the struggle for the status of an independent Ukrainian Orthodox Church from the Moscow Patriarchate. Since Ukraine's independence in 1991, the country has had two national churches and
Civa Syadza Masnun
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Ukrainian Orthodoxy: historiosophical comprehension of the phenomenon

Українське Pелігієзнавство, 1996
The term "Ukrainian Orthodox" I "has long been known to religious scholars. But in the sense of a special direction Orthodox "I, which has significant differences from other of its national forms in the ritual, religious, and even theological spheres, it
Oleksandr N. Sagan
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Patterns of development of religious culture in modern society: problems of systematization and philosophical understanding

Вестник Мининского университета
Introduction. Religious culture is becoming one of the most important subjects of philosophical science today. The philosophical methodology makes it possible to systematize the available knowledge not only of the philosophical, but also of the general ...
E. V. Gryaznova, S. N. Berezkin
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