The policy of the Soviet state and the Renovationist schism in Kuban, region (1922–1923) [PDF]
This article reconstructs the evolution of renovationist schism in the Kuban Diocese, which was one of the main outposts of the schism in the country, based on a wide range of unpublished sources from state and departmental archives.
Nikita Kiyashko
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The Renovationist Schism in the Don Region and the Activities of «Archbishop» Melchizedek (Nikolayev) [PDF]
The article deals with the history of the renovationist schism in the Diocese of Don and Novocherkassk and with the role played in that process by “Archbishop” Melchizedek (also known as Nikolayev, Nikolev, or Nikolin).
Shadrina Alla
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Evolution of the attitude of metropolitan (patriarch) Sergiy (Stragorodskiy) to the renovationist schism in the 1920–1940s [PDF]
This article deals with changes in the attitude of metropolitan (Patriarch at the end of his life) Sergiy (Stragorodskiy; Russ. Сергий Страгородский) to the Sovietinspired Renovationist schism (Russ. обновленческий раскол) in the Russian Orthodox Church.
Alexander Mazyrin
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Formation of prerequisites for the renovationist schism among the liberal nobility and clergy of Orel guberniya in 1900–1917 [PDF]
Based on the analysis of the periodicals of Orel guberniya of the early 20th century, as well as information on the public utterances of provincial public fi gures on the Church question in the pre-revolutionary period, the author reconstructs the ...
Timofey Balyko
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Orders of admission to the Orthodox Church from the Renovationist Schism. Documents of Patriarch Tikhon and Patriarch’s locum tenens Petr, 1923‒1925 [PDF]
This publication introduces the earlier unknown documents of Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus’ Tikhon (Bellavin) and his Holy Synod, as well as of his successor, Patriarch’s Locum Tenens Metropolitan of Krutitsy Petr (Polyanskiy). They deal with admission
Alexander Mazyrin, Sergey Nikolaev
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The origin and activity of Yelets autocephaly in Orel diocese in the early 1920s: a history of resistance to the Renovationist Schism in the Russian Orthodox Church [PDF]
The article discusses the process of creation in 1922-1923. Yelets autocephaly, whose leaders - as well as the leaders of the Petrograd, Ufa, Belev and Nizhny Tagil autocephalies - refused to recognize the authority of the renovationist "Supreme Church ...
Timofey Balyko
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The сommissioners’ institution of the Renovationist schism: tasks, functions, activity peculiarities [PDF]
This article attempts to give a comprehensive assessment of the process of creation, activity and liquidation of the commissioners’ institution in the system of church governing bodies of the Renovated Church in the 1920s and 1930s.
Viktar Baranenka
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The journal ''Sobornyi razum'' as a source on the history of Renovationism in 1918 [PDF]
The next year 2022 marks the 100th anniversary of the Renovationist schism in the Russian Church. The question of whether post-revolutionary Renovationism was a continuation of the reform movement in the Russian Church at the beginning of the 20th ...
Irina Vorontsova
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"I Am Merciless in Leading Strategic Battle Against Black-Hundred Clergy". Member of the Renovationist VCU "Archpriest" Boris Dikarev’s Reports to the GPU [PDF]
Published secret dispatches to the GPU one of the leaders of the renovationist schism in the Ukraine, a member of the «Higher Church Administration» B. T.
Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest
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“Top secret. Keep in secret”. Minutes of the previously unknown commission of l. D. Trotsky for the schism of the Russian Orthodox Church (may — october 1922) [PDF]
This publication introduces into scientific circulation a new archival source on the history of the renovationist schism in the Russian Orthodox Church — the protocols of the meetings of the commission of the Central Committee of the RCP (b) "On values ...
Sergei Ivanov
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