Ivan Anatolyevich Polyakov PhD in History, researcher, Institurte of Russian Literature, Russan Academy of Sciences (Pushkin House) (Makarov Embankment, 4, 199034, Saint Petersburg, Russia)
ivan669@bk.ru
Polyakov I. A. Diary entries of A. F. Bartolomey for 1862–1863 in the context of travel descriptions to the Christian East, 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, 2024, vol. 13, pp. 418–444.
doi: 10.24412/2308-0698-2024-13-418-444
Language: Russian
The article introduces into scientific circulation the diary of the nobleman Alexander Fedorovich Bartolomey (1833–1896), the eldest son of the Pskov military governor F. F. Bartolomey, for the period 1856–1863. The manuscript of the diary was discovered in the collections of the Manuscript Department of the Russian State Library and had not previously attracted the attention of researchers. The study examines in detail the biographies of the owner and his family, their literary activity, and presents the results of a comprehensive analysis of the diary: its content, structure, principles of record-keeping, and history of existence. Particular attention is paid to the events of January–March 1862, during which A.F. Bartolomey traveled to the East — to Egypt and Palestine. A comparison of the diary with pilgrimage descriptions of the 1850–1860s showed that the author, despite his religiosity, perceived the trip to the Holy Land as a tourist journey, and not as a spiritual feat, which he had been striving for all his life. The trip was also of a business nature, since his family’s high position in society and material wealth allowed him to communicate daily with representatives of diplomatic circles of different countries, members of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem and local hierarchs. It seems that the discovered monument deserves to be published in full with a translation of the French sections into Russian and extensive commentary.
Key words: Russian Empire, autobiographical literature, diary, pilgrimage description, Russian Palestine, Egypt, travel
URL: https://rcs-almanac.ru/polyakov-2024-en/
