Kozhevnikova, Y EXAMINATION OF THE TOMBS OF THE LOCALLY VENERATED SAINTS OF THE OLONETS COUNTY IN THE PETER THE GREAT ERA. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(6):84–92. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.660


Russian history

EXAMINATION OF THE TOMBS OF THE LOCALLY VENERATED SAINTS OF THE OLONETS COUNTY IN THE PETER THE GREAT ERA

Kozhevnikova
Yu. N. 		Vodlozersky National Park
Keywords:
local saints
Peter the Great
monasteries
Olonets county
Alexander-Svirsky monastery
Andrusova hermitage
Syandemskaya hermitage
Nikiforova hermitage
relics		 Summary: On the basis of new archival documents, the article for the first time considers the issue of the official survey of the tombs and burial places of the locally venerated saints of Olonets county in 1721 and 1722, conducted by the synodal decree of the rector of the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery, Archimandrite Kirill. The identified written sources contain important information about how Peter’s innovations in the church sphere were implemented at the local level. Adopted in the first quarter of the XVIII century, the new laws on “non-attested coffins” violated the pioustraditions of veneration of local shrines in numerous Russian monasteries and did not allow diocesan bishops to glorify new ascetics. It turns out that the bone remains discovered during the excavations carried out in 1721 and 1722 in the monasteries were not perceived by the participants of their examination as “imperishable remains”. The memorial temples mentioned in the documents, which stood over the graves of the founders of the monasteries, the prayer and hagiographic texts compiled in their honor, as well as the icons with images of ascetics that existed, confirm the fact that the local celebration of the memory of the founders of the Nikiforova, Andrusova and Syandemskaya hermitages of Olonets county was established by the beginning of the 1720s.



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