Nikolay Alekseevich Starukhin,
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.
Resolutions of the Old Believers-Titovtsy of the 20th – Early 21st Centuries and Their Sources
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-2-15
The article introduces into scientific circulation the sources obtained in the course of field research in one of the little-studied Old Believers’ confessions of Siberia – Titovtsy. The accord was named after its main leader, a native of Perm peasants and a former chapel Titus Tarasovich Vygvintsev. From the entire array of sources obtained in recent years by Siberian archeographers, two directly related documents are published: “Testament of the Brotherhood with Titus Tarasovich” and “Conciliar resolution of the Old Believers of Titus Consent” 2005. The “Testament” dated April 4, 1903, is by far the earliest source on the history of consent. The document allows you to more accurately establish the date of the foundation of the new current. His analysis confirms the fact that in the Old Believer environment, including chapels and Pomeranians, in the second half of the 19th century, disputes on a number of dogmatic and ceremonial issues intensified, eschatological moods. As a result, there is the formation of independent interpretations, new leaders stand out. At the same time, the process of secret Old Believer migrations to more inaccessible places continues, where contacts between Old Believers of different consents are intensified. In some cases, attempts are being made to unite. The published council resolution, as well as other sources related to it, it allowed us to identify one of the ideological components that are important for any Old Believer agreement, based on the idea of continuity, honoring their predecessors. In some cases, it is possible to talk about the borrowing by Lithuanians of certain doctrines of Pomeranians and wanderers, the use of their book monuments. This initially determined both the peculiarities of this agreement and the contradictions in its doctrine, which can be traced back to our days.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 27.03.2023
How to cite: Starukhin N.A. Resolutions of the Old Believers-Titovtsy of the 20th – Early 21st Centuries and Their Sources // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 2 (28), pp. 172–191. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-2-15.pdf]
The article was made on the topic of the state assignment “Memory of the Past in Written Sources of the 16th–20th Centuries: Updating Events, Broadcasting Cultural Traditions, Research Practices” (FWZM-2021-0005).
Links: Issue 2 2023
Keywords: Old Believers; Pomor Confession; controversy; T.T. Vygvintsev; titovtsy; chapel consent; sources