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FIGHT OF THE ORTHODOX CHURCH TO ERADICATE THE OLD BELIEVERS IN UST-TSILMA PARISH DURING THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I (1825–1855) // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2016. Issue 9 (174). P. 14-20

The article analyses inter-confessional relations of the Russian old believers (pomorets) and representatives of the Orthodox Church in Ust-Tsilma municipality of the Mezen district of the Arkhangelsk province in the second quarter of the XIX century. The analysis is based on the previously unknown archival documents stored in the State archive of Arkhangelsk region. The main attention is paid to the activities of the Orthodox priests, which was aimed at the eradication of schism. Reveals the factors that contributed to the preservation and consolidation of the old believers in Ust-Tsilma villages. Special importance is attached to opening of the common faith parish in the village of Ust-Tsilma in 1856. Analyses and explains the failure of local authorities and clergy on the eradication of the old believers. The main conclusion serves the determination of the activity of the clergy, carrying out the decrees of the sovereign for the elimination of the schism, which fullfiled explanatory work among the old believer population rather inertly. That explains the failures of the local authorities and clergy to eradicate it.

Keywords: Russian, Old Believers, split, priests, Ust-Tsilma, house of worship, the church

MISSIONARY ACTIVITY OF VELIKOPOZHENSKY MENTORS AND PEASANTS ON THE LOWER PECHORA DURING THE REIGN OF NICHOLAS I // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2018. Issue 1 (190). P. 198-202

The article deals with the analysis of the evangelical activity of the Russian conservatives (pomorets) living in the Ust-Tsilemsky volost of the Mezen County of the Arkhangelsk province in the first half of the 19th century. Earlier unknown archival documents which are stored in the State archive of the Arkhangelsk region, discovering the facts about evangelical activity of conservatives are considered. During the considered historical period the Velikopozhensky monastery where mentors, copyists of books, draftsmen of wall sheets worked was the main Old Believers’ center of the nizhnepechorsky region. Activity of its monks as preachers a drevlepravoslaviya in the rural areas located on the Pechora River is considered. Preachers were not only mentors, nachchechikami, but also ordinary peasants who actively traveled along the Pechora in the guise of artisans and through their preaching and way of life helped to transform officially Orthodox people into Old Belief. The main attention in work is paid to the false decree, presented as «sovereign», distributed by the Ust-Tsilma peasants in support of conservatives a as well as with the aim of involving the population in the Old Believers. Peasants read the false decree in their families, rewrote and distributed it through the inhabitants of the villages. Despite the pursued ban policy of the Old Belief, the number of the people passing into it steadily grew.

Keywords: Russians, Old-Pomorian, split, Ust-Tsilma, false decree, missionary work