Nikolay Alekseevich Starukhin,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Research Officer, 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.
Pomor Polemical Writing “Confession of Faith of My Unworthiness” and Its Author
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-2-18
The article introduces into scientific circulation the writing “A Brief Confession of My Unworthiness”, which belongs to the Nizhny Novgorod scribe G.E. Tokarev the leader of one of the original Old Believer Agreements, who later received the name of his ideologue. The organizational design of the “Tokarevtsy” as an independent movement was preceded by an intense long-term controversy in Pomeranian societies in the second half of the 19th century on the issues of marriage, re-baptism and some others. The discussions affected communities not only in the central part of the country, but also in the Urals and Siberia. Analysis of the sources that have become available to researchers in recent years showed that this controversy was based on internal contradictions, to a large extent related to the rethinking of the legacy of the early Vyg. A distinctive feature of the disputes in the Pomeranian societies of the above period is the expansion of the range of issues considered in the disputes, including those that had been previously addressed by the Old Believers due to dogmatic problems. As can be seen, in the published writing, the circle of sources used by the author of the writing is also expanding. Along with texts that are authoritative for all Old Believers, academic synodal translations are involved. Individual episodes in the history of the Russian Church, individual apocryphal publications, the authenticity of which was never in doubt among the Old Believers, are subjected to critical analysis. It is assumed that the published work was compiled personally by G.E. Tokarev during his active preaching in Siberia not earlier than 1909, and is a brief edition of the polemical treatise.
Publishing: 28/04/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 21.03.2022
How to cite: Starukhin N.A. Pomor Polemical Writing “Confession of Faith of My Unworthiness” and Its Author // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 2 (22), pp. 269–277. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-2-18.pdf]
Links: Issue 2 2022
Keywords: Old Believers, Pomor Agreement, controversy, G.E. Tokarev, Tokarevtsy, sources