Title of the article:

ORTHODOXY IN THE HISTORY OF PRE-REVOLUTIONARY STAVROPOL-TOGLIATTI

Author(s):

Vadim N. Yakunin

Information about the author/authors

Vadim N. Yakunin — DSc in History, Professor, Volga State University, Gagarina St., 4, 445677 Togliatti, Russia. E-mail: vadyak@mail.ru

Section

Theory and history of culture

Year

2019

Volume

Vol. 54

Pages

pp. 54–72

Received

February 24, 2019

Date of publication

December 28, 2019

Index UDK

008

Index BBK

71.2 + 86.372.24

Abstract

The paper analyzes the history of Orthodox life in the city of Stavropol in 1737–1917, including the construction of churches, educational and missionary activities of the clergy, as well as their income. As it confirms the Orthodoxy played a special role in the history of Stavropol, becoming more than a century since its founding the center of baptized Kalmyks. For the Stavropolites unfamiliar with majestic monuments, museums, buildings and palaces of culture which we have nowadays, the cathedral was a place for prayers, communication and the city center of spirituality and culture. The author examines the role of clergy in the Christianity spread among the Kalmyk population who migrated to Stavropol and its outskirts in the 30–40s. The paper focuses on the activities of prominent missionary priests of the 18th century: Archimandrite Nicodemus (Lenkevich) and Archpriest Andrei Chubovsky. It is proved, despite the facts of the formal adoption of Christianity by the Kalmyks and their dual faith, the positive influence of Russian culture on their lifestyle, enlightenment, everyday life. A special attention is given to the church temple-building, the educational activities of the clergy, as well as the activities of church philanthropists of the 19th century. The study explores the visits of the Emperor Alexander I and the holy righteous John of Kronstadt to Stavropol as extraordinary events for a provincial city, the legends of which still live on among the indigenous Stavropolites.

Keywords

temples, cathedrals, churches, monasteries, clergy, hierarchs, charity.

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