«In the interests of increasing the influence and prestige of the USSR in the Middle East». Report of the soviet representative in Turkey to authorities of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs of the USSR on situation in the Patriarchate of Constantinople in 1924 [PDF]
This publication introduces an important document from the Archive of foreign policy of the Russian Federation. This document illustrates the attitude of the People's Commissariat for Foreign Aff airs of the USSR towards the Patriarchate of ...
Aleksandr Mazyrin
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What Compromise with the Renovationists Agreed Patriarch Tikhon to in 1923–1924? Part 1: Negotiations with the “Holy Synod” of Evdokim (Meshchersky), 1923 [PDF]
The proposed article, based on the sources of various types (official, clerical, journalistic, and personal ones) and origins (ecclesiastical, schismatic, and state), examines attempts — under the guise of church reconciliation — to impose on Patriarch ...
Priest Alexander V. Mazyrin
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The Russian Orthodox Church in the occupied territories of the Caucasus in August 1942 — February 1943 [PDF]
The status and activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the 1942-1943 is analysed on the material of the North Caucasus and the Kuban. Battle for the Caucasus and the Battle of Stalingrad — the crucial events of the World War II — were accompanied by
Shishkin Evgenii, priest
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WHAT COMPROMISE WITH THE RENOVATIONISTS AGREED PATRIARCH TIKHON TO IN 1923–1924? PART 2: NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE “LIVING CHURCH” OF VLADIMIR KRASNITSKY. 1924 [PDF]
The proposed article, based on the sources of various types (official, clerical, journalistic, and personal ones) and origins (ecclesiastical, schismatic, and state), examines attempts — under the guise of church reconciliation — to impose on Patriarch ...
Priest Alexander V. Mazyrin
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Patriarch Tikhon and the Patriarchate of Constantinople: to the question about the causes of the actual breakup of relations [PDF]
The article discusses the development of relations between the Russian and Constantinople Churches during the rule of the Saint Patriarch Tikhon (1917–1925).
Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest
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“It is necessary to act with extreme caution in order to protect the soviet authorities from any accusations of interference in religious affairs”. An unknown document of the State Political Directorate on instigating the split in the Russian Orthodox Church [PDF]
The article introduces a new document of the GPU Secret Department on the instigating the Renovationist split in the Russian Orthodox Church. This is the postal telegram No.
Savin Andrey
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Leaflet “Memo for Churchmen” as the Source for the History of Renovationist Schism in Altai (1924)
One of the plots in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church of the time of Patriarch Tikhon is considered, when in 1924 the renewal group “Living Church” headed by priest V. D. Krasnitsky had a try to join the supporters of the patriarch. It was established that this plot was repeatedly considered in literature, but its comprehensive study became ...
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The Soviet Renovationist Schism and the Problem of the Transition to the New Calendar in the 1920s [PDF]
The paper is devoted to the attempts of the God-fighting communist government to impose a Western calendar alien to the Russian Orthodox Church, with the assistance of the Renovationist schism inspired by this government.
Priest Alexander V. Mazyrin
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ON THE HISTORY OF THE RENOVATIONIST SCHISM IN TRANSCAUCASIA AND UNSUCCESSFUL PROJECTS OF RECONCILIATION BETWEEN THE RUSSIAN AND GEORGIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHES (1922–1923) [PDF]
The article is devoted to the initial history of the Renovationist schism in the Soviet Transcaucasia, mainly in the Baku diocese. The main sources of information became letters written in July 1923 to the Holy Patriarch Tikhon by the last governor of ...
priest Aleksandr V. Mazyrin
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To the question about «the revisionist nature of sergianstvo» [PDF]
The article deals with ecclesiastical polemics 1920–1930-ies, namely the prosecution of the Deputy Locum Tenens Metropolitan Sergius (Stragorodsky) in the pursuit of innovative ways as they pushed against him by the representatives of the «right» Church ...
Mazyrin Aleksandr, priest
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