Kozhevnikova, Y MONUMENTS OF PETER THE GREAT EPOCH IN THE MONASTERIES OF THE OLONETS EPARCHY. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2022;44(8):76–84. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2022.837


To the 350th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great

MONUMENTS OF PETER THE GREAT EPOCH IN THE MONASTERIES OF THE OLONETS EPARCHY

Kozhevnikova
Yu. N. 		Kola Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
monasteries
Olonets eparchy
Peter the Great epoch
relics
churches		 Summary: The article deals with the question of the monuments of the Peter the Great epoch that were in the functioning and abolished monasteries of the Olonets eparchy, which was not previously studied in Russian historiography. The main sources for the study were property inventories, clerical documents from the funds of individual monasteries, Olonets and Novgorod ecclesiastical consistories, parish and expense books, published materials of meetings of the Imperial Archaeological Commission, as well as local history literature. For the first time, the surviving written evidence of stone and wooden churches built in local monasteries at the end of the XVII – first quarter of the XVIII century, and monastic relics associated with Peter I and his time are summarized. The monks received from the tsar and his relatives priestly vestments and vozdukhi (veils) made of expensive imported fabrics, richly decorated liturgical books, bells and special gifts (a cross-reliquary, cast-iron cannons, wooden chairs made by the sovereign). It turns out that from the rich “Peter’s” heritage to the present day, single temples in the existing Alexander-Svirsky and Alexander-Oshevensky monasteries and objects of that glorious era that fell into the museum funds during the Soviet years have survived.



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