The Old Believers in imperial Russia : oppression, opportunism and religious identity in Tsarist Moscow

The Old Believers in imperial Russia : oppression, opportunism and religious identity in Tsarist Moscow / Peter T. De Simone.

"Two Romes have fallen. The third stands. And there will be no fourth." So spoke Russian monk Hegumen Filofei of Pskov in 1510, proclaiming Muscovite Russia as heirs to the legacy of the Roman Empire following the collapse of the Byzantine Empire. The so-called "Third Rome Doctrine&qu...

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Main Author: De Simone, Peter T. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd, 2018.
Series:Library of modern Russia ; 21.
Subjects:
Old Believers > Russia (Federation) > Moscow.
RELIGION > Christianity > Orthodox.
Old Believers
Raskolniki
Russia (Federation) > Moscow
Russland
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Old believers and the opportunities of Imperial Russia
  • 2. Faith and identity under siege, 1822-56
  • 3. Rogozhskoe in the Reform Era, 1856-1905
  • 4. A new beginning, 1905-17
  • Epilogue and conclusion. Tragedy and new challenges.

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