Petrov Stanislav G.,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Letter of Bishop Eugene Zernov to Patriarch Tikhon on Propagating the Renovationist chism in the Blagoveshchensk Diocese (1923)
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2019-2-4
The article is devoted to the study of the regional aspect of the history of the Renovationist Church schism. The focus of attention is the Blagoveshchensk diocese during the period when of the Bolsheviks were promoting Renovationists with the help of administrative resources. The purpose of this article is to introduce into scientific circulation the full text of the epistolary source, reflecting the peculiarities of the events in the Blagoveshchensk diocese. The letter of Bishop Eugene Zernov to Patriarch Tikhon about the seizure of Church power by the Renovationists in the far Eastern dioceses of the Orthodox Russian Church is analyzed and published. The article provides biographical information about the life of the author of the letter; reconstructs the context of events allowing a better understanding of the conditions in which the letter was written to Patriarch Tikhon. This article should be considered in line with other academic publications of the Epistles to Patriarch Tikhon from the Asian dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church prepared by the author of the article. This task has been formulated as a priority a few years ago and is being addressed purposefully, to the extent possible. The author prepared and published epistles from the Ural and Siberian dioceses. The Bishop's letter to Patriarch Tikhon from the Blagoveshchensk diocese will organically replenish the corpus of such published sources on the Church history of the 20th century.
Publishing: 29/04/2019
How to cite: Petrov S.G. Letter of Bishop Eugene Zernov to Patriarch Tikhon on Propagating the Renovationist chism in the Blagoveshchensk Diocese (1923) // Historical Courier, 2019, # 2 (4). Article 4. [Available online:] http://istkurier.ru/data/2019/ISTKURIER-2019-2-04.pdf
Links: Issue 2 2019
Keywords: Russian Orthodox Church; Blagoveshchensk diocese; far East; Patriarch Tikhon; Bishop Eugene Zernov; epistolary sources