Staritsyn, A. N. RELATIONSHIP OF THE VYG-LEKSA COMMON-COMMUNITY WITH THE STATE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 2 (179). P. 108–113. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.298


Russian history

RELATIONSHIP OF THE VYG-LEKSA COMMON-COMMUNITY WITH THE STATE IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY

Staritsyn
A. N. 		Institute for Scientific Information on Social Sciences of RAS
Keywords:
old belief
public policy
common-community
rural administration		 Summary: The state policy towards old believers in the early 18th century acquired a pragmatic character, which allowed the largest Northern community of old believers to legalize its settlement. On the basis of the Vyg charters and documents of official character, an attempt is made for the first time to consider the principles of communication of the Vyg’ settlement with the outside world in the person of the state. In order to avoid persecution and ruin of their settlement, the leaders of Vyg community made a compromise with the state authorities. The decisive moment in the implementation of old believers’ plans of legalization of their community was a good geographical location of Vyg common-community, in the area which was built is strategically important for the state factories and were searching for iron ore and copper. The article discusses the issues of how the reptiles positioned themselves before the secular authorities, what structures within their organization they had to create, it is emphasized that the creation of the Zemsky system of government was the result of forced contact with the outside world. The desire to preserve their faith and survive in the new conditions were the main motivations of the old believers.



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