The social appearance of the urban Orthodox parish at the turn of the 19th – 20th centuries. according to the metric books of the Epiphany Cathedral in Yekaterinburg

Abstract

The article presents the results of the analysis of the parish community according to the database of the Epiphany Cathedral of the parish books of the late 19th – early 20th centuries. The data on the social status, class, occupation and place of registration / residence of parents, whose children were baptized in this temple in Yekaterinburg, were used. The Epiphany parish united the urbanized business and administrative elite of a large regional city, as well as rural migrants looking for work and a better life.