Pigin, A. V. PETER THE GREAT AND ST. PETERSBURG IN THE WORKS OF THE OLD BELIEVERS WRITERS OF THE VYG COMMUNITY // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 6 (183). P. 77–84. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.375


Russian history

PETER THE GREAT AND ST. PETERSBURG IN THE WORKS OF THE OLD BELIEVERS WRITERS OF THE VYG COMMUNITY

Pigin
A. V. 		Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
old belief
Vyg Old Believer community
Peter the Great
St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg flood of 1824
plot of “the tsar’s trial”		 Summary: The article analyzes the images of Peter the Great and the capital founded by him in the Vyg old believer writers’ oeuvre of the 18th – the 1st third of the 19th century. These works are indicative of an exceptionally positive perception of Peter the Great by Vyg old believers, who saw him as a merciful and wise ruler, because the tsar’s policy was religiously tolerant. Some of them throw light on particular facts from the history of Peter the Great’s visit to the Olonets province. The article examines narratives based on a plot, popular in works about the tsar, known as “the tsar’s trial”. As a literary context, anecdotes about Peter the Great are drawn from I. I. Golikov’s and A. K. Nartov’s collections. One of the Vyg writers’ works about the flood that happened in St. Petersburg in 1824 is analyzed and presented to the scientific community for the first time.



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