Alexey L’vovich Beglov,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Hymnographic Commemoration of Deceased Spiritual Fathers in the Tradition of the Secret Monastic Communities of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2025-3-8
The article deals with three hymnographic works created by members of the secret monastic communities of Moscow’s Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery and dedicated to the memory of their deceased spiritual leaders. These are two canons by Archimandrite German (Polyansky), dedicated to the memory of the abbot of the monastery, Archbishop Bartholomew (Remov), written in the mid-1930s, and the canon of Nun Ignatia (Puzik) dedicated to the memory of Schiarchimandrite Ignatiy (Lebedev), written at the turn of the 1970s−1980s. These works reveal important aspects of the self-consciousness of the members of the Vysoko-Petrovsky communities, who described the spiritual state of the Christians of the Soviet era through an appeal to the biblical image of the three young men in the furnace of Babylon from the Book of Daniel and to the images of the martyrs of the first centuries of the Christian era. In addition, the works under consideration demonstrate their authors’ deep penetration into the literary world of Orthodox worship, which allowed them to clothe their personal experiences in traditional hymnographic forms.
Publishing: 28/06/2025
The article has been received by the editor on 16/03/2025
How to cite: Beglov A.L. Hymnographic Commemoration of Deceased Spiritual Fathers in the Tradition of the Secret Monastic Communities of the Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery // Historical Courier, 2025, No. 3 (41), pp. 118–137. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2025/ISTKURIER-2025-3-08.pdf]
The article is based on the author's report at the V conference “Modern Orthodox Hymnography”, organized by the Center for the Study of the Church Slavonic Language of the Institute of the Russian Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, March 9−10, 2016). The author expresses gratitude to the colleagues who took part in the discussion of this work, especially priest Maxim Plyakin, A.G. Kravetsky, I.A. Fadeev.
Links: Issue 3 2025
Keywords: history of the Russian Orthodox Church of the 20th century; secret monastic communities; Vysoko-Petrovsky Monastery; sources on the history of the Church; church archives; hymnography; liturgical samizdat