{"title":"Bishop Andrey (worldly Aleksandr Ukhtomskiy) — founder of the journal “Employee of Transcaucasian Mission”","authors":"Sofiyanina A. Sterlikova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-341-378","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-341-378","url":null,"abstract":"The article provides a brief overview of the history of the Sukhum diocese, as well as provides more detailed information about Bishop Andrey (worldly Aleksandr Ukhtomskiy), who occupied the Sukhumi Eparchy in 1911–1913. An outstanding undertaking by Bp. Andrey was the establishment of the Church-missionary journal “Employee of the Transcaucasian Mission”, which published sermons, articles of religious-moral, church-historical, ethnographic content, discussed issues of missionary affairs, church-social and church-school. One of the main problems of Sukhumi eparchy was the paganism of the population; in each issue of the “Employee” this issue was considered from different angles. Covering the life of parishes, the publication posted on its pages information about parish churches, their history and condition; these testimonies are gaining undoubted value today. It is a reliable picture of the life of Abkhazia in the first decades of the 20th century created by statistical data published in the “Employee” — on the number of births, married and buried parishioners, on the composition of the population and religion. The journal also published the so-called “Travel Notes” that told about the travels of clergymen to remote corners of Abkhazia to communicate with local residents. Some of the publications of the materials of the journal “Employee of the Transcaucasian Mission” are offered to the readers’ attention.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"103 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116010546","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manuscript about the claims of the Onomatodoxists to Pitsunda skete of the New Athos Monastery","authors":"M. S. Krutova","doi":"10.22455/arl-2021-1-295-320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.22455/arl-2021-1-295-320","url":null,"abstract":"The Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library contains materials of different genres about the claims of the Onomatodoxists to Pitsunda skete of the New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean — letters, reports, petitions. The reason for the Onomatodoxists disputes is believed to be the book “On the Caucasus Mountains” by Schemamonk Ilarion (worldly Ivan Domrachyov), who was assigned to the New Athos monastery after he had left Old Athos. The originals of the published documents are kept in the Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library in the fund of Bishop Nikon (worldly Nikolay Rozhdestvenskiy); the former was a member of the Most Holy Synod, actively opposed the religious movement which arose on Old Athos in the early 20th century. The value of the published documents lies in the fact that they tell about a little-known page in the history of the New Athos Monastery.","PeriodicalId":286596,"journal":{"name":"Abkhazia in Russian Literature of the 19th — 20th Centuries: in 3 vols. Vol. 1","volume":"190 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121724958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}