Kozhevnikova, Y “MONASTERY” LAWS OF PETER THE GREAT AND MONASTICISM IN OLONETS COUNTY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XVIII CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 2 (179). P. 81–84. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.294


Russian history

“MONASTERY” LAWS OF PETER THE GREAT AND MONASTICISM IN OLONETS COUNTY IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE XVIII CENTURY

Kozhevnikova
Yu. N. 		National park “Vodlozersky”
Keywords:
the Orthodox monasteries
the Orthodox monasticism
Olonets County (Uyezd)
laws of Peter the Great
history of Russian Church in the first half of the XVIII centur		 Summary: Using new and little-known written archival documents, author identifies the implications and significance of “monastic” legislation of Peter the Great for the Russian Orthodox monasticism in Olonets County. The current research resolves the previously not answered question how “antimonastic” policy hold by the tsar-reformer has influenced on lives of monks who inhabited various monasteries and hermitages in Olonets County (uyezd) in the first half of the XVIII century. The analyses of the data shows that the tightening of state policy towards monasticism has led at the local level to a sharp reduction in the size of fraternal communities.



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