Ivan Aleksandrovich Nikulin,
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Theology, Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary; Priest, Great Martyr St. George the Victorious, Bialystok, Poland, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
The Study of the Tobolsk Bishop’s House as a Church-Administrative Structure in Russian Historiography
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2022-2-7
The article examines the history of studying Tobolsk Bishop’s house as a church-administrative structure. Interest in the history and structure of Episcopal houses in Russia arose even before the revolution of 1917. However, in Soviet Russia, the history of bishops’ houses was studied primarily from an economic perspective, though bishops’ houses were not only centers of feudal economy, but also management centers of dioceses, as well as residences of bishops, and centers of culture. Interest in studying the organization of church administration in the Tobolsk diocese arose as early as the 19th century (P.N. Butsinsky, I.M. Pokrovsky, et al.); however, the complexity of the source base did not allow to devote special works to this issue. A new wave of research in the last decades of the 20th century is undoubtedly connected with the introduction into scientific circulation and the study of a number of sources undertaken by N.N. Pokrovsky, E.K. Romodanovskaya and their colleagues. An attempt to study the issue was made in the dissertation of N.S. Kharina, however, very little attention was paid to the structure of the institution, considered by the researcher, first of all, as a patrimonial economy. In the summarized works on the history of Siberia and adjacent territories, the topic of the structure of church administration is covered in an overview, and researches of recent decades are often taken into account. The author of this article also made some efforts to study the topic; however, it seems that in the study of the church-administrative structure of the Tobolsk Bishop’s house there are still many blank spots due to the absence or lack of study of sources, and the myths that arose in the 19th century continue to exist in historiography.
Publishing: 28/04/2022
The article has been received by the editor on 28.12.2021
How to cite: Nikulin I.A. The Study of the Tobolsk Bishop’s House as a Church-Administrative Structure in Russian Historiography // Historical Courier, 2022, No. 2 (22), pp. 113–126. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2022/ISTKURIER-2022-2-07.pdf]
Links: Issue 2 2022
Keywords: historiography, Tobolsk Bishop’s House, Tobolsk Diocese, orthodoxy in Siberia