Solodkin, Y METROPOLITAN PAUL I OF TOBOLSK AND SIBERIAN CHRONICLE WRITING IN LATE 17th CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 5 (174). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.167


Russian history

METROPOLITAN PAUL I OF TOBOLSK AND SIBERIAN CHRONICLE WRITING IN LATE 17th CENTURY

Solodkin
Ya. G. 		Nizhnevartovsk State University
Keywords:
Metropolitan Paul I of Tobolsk
Siberian chronicle
Kniga Zapisnaya
Golovinskaya and Naryshkinskaya editions of the Siberian Chronicle
annalistic reports about the activities of Metropolitan Paul
chronicle reports of church construction and selfimmolations of schismatics		 Summary: development of the Siberian chronicle writing, which was conducted under the predecessor of this bishop, Cornelius, and most likely before. The objectives of the paper include the definition of the editions of the Siberian Chronicle, probably formed during the stay of Paul I head of the Tobolsk Bishop’s House (1678–1692), and a range of year-by-year records revealing an interest in the fate of the metropolitan department of that time – records that may have appeared with the participation of this prelate. The methods of study employed in this paper are the identification of chronicle reports in which interest in Metropolitan Paul’s activities is revealed and which are attributed to the scribes of the Sophia Bishop’s House, who served under Metropolitan Paul, and the establishment of editions of the Siberian Chronicle that contain the most significant layers of such reports. As a result of the study conducted, it was determined that interest in Paul’s activities is felt in the Kniga Zapisnaya (Book of Records) and the two subsequent editions of this collection – Golovinskaya and Naryshkinskaya. Chroniclers, in particular, reported on the trips of this lord to Moscow, the punishments to them by voivodes M. V. and I. V. Priklonsky, the transfer of the remains of archbishops Makary and Gerasimus, Metropolitan Kornilius, “delivering” Paul to the Assumption Cathedral of St. Sophia with the granting of a white cap, Archimandrite of the Yenisei Spassky Monastery of St. Matthew, consecration of the temples by the bishop, his illness and death. Dozens of entries in the Golovinskaya and Naryshkinskaya editions of the Siberian Chronicle are devoted to church construction and the delivery of bells from Moscow; as well as multiple cases of Old Believers “fires”. Relevant reports that appeared, sometimes in the hot pursuit of events, provide grounds to connect them to two annalistic works, one of which became the source of the Kniga Zapisnaya, and the second, sometimes less detailed, of the Golovinskaya and Naryshkinskaya editions of the Siberian Chronicle. Both of these works differ significantly in the composition of the entries. Messages of the Kniga Zapisnaya about the prolonged illness of the metropolitan (after his transferring the remains of former Siberian lords before his death), his return from Moscow to Tobolsk on January 2, 1683 and March 20, 1687, can be attributed to eyewitnesses, most likely to persons close to Paul I, as well as a record from the Golovinskaya edition of the Siberian Chronicle about the ups and downs of the construction of the stone Uspensky Cathedral. At the end of the 17th century, the Tobolsk Bishop’s House remained the center of chronicle writing, with the latter being simultaneously conducted in the voivode administration of the “reigning city” of the Siberian land.



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