Activities of archpriest Pavel Kalinkin during the Second World War as factor of parish division in the Narva dioces

Ivan Vasil’evich Petrov PhD in History, senior researcher, Institute of History, Saint-Petersburg State University (7–9 Universitetskaya embankment, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russia)
i.petrov@spbu.ru; ivanpet1990@hotmail.com

Petrov I. V. Activities of archpriest Pavel Kalinkin during the Second World War as factor of parish division in the Narva dioces, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2022, vol. 11, pp. 194–266.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2022-11-194-266

Language: Russian

The article examines the processes that took place among Orthodox parishes during the Second World War and the Nazi occupation of the Baltic countries from March 1941. Cathedral of Narva, was in conflict with the diocesan bishop — Bishop Paul (Dmitrovsky). Their mutual misunderstanding and the unresolved issue with the appointment of priest Kalinkin as rector of the cathedral in Narva ultimately led to a division between the parishes. Archpriest Pavel Kalinkin managed to organize the departure of a whole group of clergy from the power of the diocesan bishop and the transition to the power of Metropolitan Alexander (Paulus) of Tallinn and Estonia, who restored his own jurisdiction under the Nazi occupation, leaving the subordination of Moscow’s supporters. His further activities in connection with the organization of evacuation to the Estonian capital in connection with the offensive of the Red Army are also considered. The article is based on the materials of the National Archives of Estonia and the Archives of the Estonian Orthodox Church.

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Key words: Orthodox Church, Estonia, World War II, Baltic Exarchate, Pavel Kalinkin

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/en-petrov-2022/

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Prophecies of «youth Vyacheslav» as an eschatological discourse about disasters

Vladimir Yur’evich Lebedev,
Aleksandr Michaylovich Prilutskiy
Doctor of Philosophy, professor, Tver’ State University (ulitsa Zhjelyabova, 33, Tver’, Russia, 170023)
semion.religare@yandex.ru
Doctor of Philosophy, professor, The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia (Moika Embankment, dom 48, korpus 20a, St. Petersburg, Russia, 191186)
alpril@mail.ru

Lebedev V. Y., Prilutskiy A. M. Prophecies of «youth Vyacheslav» as an eschatological discourse about disasters, Religiya. Tserkov’. Obshchestvo. Issledovaniya i publikatsii po teologii i religii [Religion. Church. Society: Research and publications in the field of theology and religious studies], Saint-Petersburg, 2022, vol. 11, pp. 80–93.

doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2022-11-80-93

Language: Russian

The article discusses the religious veneration of the «Youth Vyacheslav», a teenager who died in the city of Chebarkul in 1993. Despite the fact that at present the cult of Vyacheslav is distributed mainly within the Orthodox ritual sphere, in terms of its content it can be assessed as pseudo-Orthodox and para-Orthodox. This article analyzes the specifics of the eschatological narratives about catastrophes attributed to Vyacheslav. The authors substantiate the thesis that the sociopsychological reasons for the demand for apocalyptic narratives about catastrophes in popular religiosity are due to the formation of lumpenized strata in society, who see eschatological catastrophes as an instrument of punishment for their more successful and wealthy fellow citizens. The content analysis of the body of texts allows us to conclude that the discourse on eschatological catastrophes presented in the prophecies of the «Chebarkul lad» contains five interrelated themes: «Hunger», «Death of cities», «Diseases», «Cryptozoological and cosmoeschatological plots», «Social catastrophes». The specificity of this phenomenon is the combination of banal narrative material and the construction of the narrative itself with a somewhat unusual situational frame.

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Key words: Orthodox Church, Estonia, World War II, Baltic Exarchate, Pavel Kalinkin

URL: http://rcs-almanac.ru/en/en-lebedev-prilutskiy-2022/

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