К уточнению круга восточнославянских списков XV–XVII веков, восходящих к древнеболгарскому Супрасльскому сборнику XI века

Author(s): Sergey Yurievich Temchin / Language(s): Russian Issue: -/2014

There are four XV–XVIIth century East Slavic manuscripts written in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (GDL) that are indirect copies of the XIth century Old Bulgarian Codex Suprasliensis. Recently some scholars have proposed adding to the list another three XV–XVIth century East Slavic Menaion readers (two of which were written outside the GDL). The author demonstrates that these three manuscripts do not stem from the Codex Suprasliensis, but represent an alternative edition of the Menaion reader which contains a number of texts in a quite different textual version. The article presents a list of the distinguishing features which help mutually separate the two structurally similar versions of the Old Church Slavonic Menaion reader for March.

К истории становления сербского литературного языка: неологизмы в проповедях Гаврилы Стефановича Венцловича

Author(s): Irina Gučkova / Language(s): Russian Issue: -/2014

The article deals with the neologisms in the sermons of Gavrilo Stefanović Venclović, a Serbian writer of the XVIIIth century, who was among the first to use Serbian vernacular as a standard language for the purpose of writing sermons. After the Vuk type of written language had won, lexical gaps were filled mainly words and expressions already present in the vernacular. This method provided a very limited stylistic and lexical inventory for the writers. Venclović’s stylistic neologisms, possessing such qualities as picturesqueness and semantic transparency, served to draw attention of the audience to the text of the sermon. Rooted in the biblical tradition, they represent a ‘bridge’ between the Old Church Slavonic lexical legacy and the Serbian vernacular, as well as demonstrate the possibility for the creation of a standard language based on vernacular, without divorcement from the tradition of Cyril and Methodius. For a more detailed analysis of the neologisms in the language of Venclović’s sermons the author has chosen the category of verbal nouns with the suffix -lac, which were further categorized into complex and simple nouns, according to the derivation feature.

O редакциях церковнославянского Пролога

Author(s): Marina Vladimirovna Chistiakova / Language(s): Russian Issue: -/2013

The Chuch Slavonic Synaxarion is an Orthodox calendar florilegium containing the lives of the saints and sermons. Characterised by a complex and extensive textual structure, the Synaxarion was widespread among the Eastern and Southern Slavic nations. Progressive studies into manuscripts have led to the discovery of new facts pertaining to the history of the Synaxarion text. This article summarises the observations made during the study into the editions of the Simple and Versed Synaxarion, which allowed clarifying and supplementing the existing classification of the editions. The article looks into the following main editions of the Simple Synaxarion: the Slavonic Synaxarion, the Kiev St. Sophia’s Cathedral edition, the Short and the Expanded editions, the Pskov edition, the Navahrudak edition and the following editions of the Versed Synaxarion: Tarnovo, Varlaam, Novgorod, Moscow, St. Cyril’s of White Lake Monastery edition, and the Rhymed edition. A more detailed classification includes short and expanded variants of these editions, versed versions of the Simple Synaxarion, and copies containing a mixed text of various editions.

Вторая международная конференция по старообрядчеству в Торуни

Author(s): Nadezhda (Nadežda) Morozova / Language(s): Russian Issue: -/2012

6–7 сентября 2012 г. в Институте славянской филологии Торуньского университета им. Николая Коперника (Польша) состоялась вторая международная научная конференция “Старообрядцы в зарубежье: история, религия, язык, культура”, посвященная, как было сказано в информационном сообщении, “разнообразным аспектам жизни старообрядцев вне России и за пределами юрисдикции Русской православной церкви”1. В работе конференции приняли участие исследователи из Польши, России, Украины, Литвы, Эстонии, Японии и Австралии. Всего на конференции было прочитано около 40 докладов.

Cerkiewnosłowiański przekład Ewangelii Mateusza w okresie po święcie Pięćdziesiątnicy w serbskich apostołach-ewangeliarzach krótkich Sv-17 i KM-512

Author(s): Jerzy Ostapczuk / Language(s): Polish Issue: -/2012

The article is devoted to two abbreviated Serbian Apostol-Gospel lectionaries from the collections of the Russian State Library in Moscow, P. I. Sevastianov collection (f. 270), no. 17 (Sv-17) and the Bulgarian National Library (Sts. Cyril and Methodius) in Sofia, no. 512 (KM-512). The collation of liturgical readings of the Gospel of Matthew (from the Pentecostal period of Synaxarion), based on 71 manuscripts, has shown that these two manuscripts have unusual readings (in terms of translation, additions, omissions, harmonization, etc.) that are characteristic only for these two lectionaries. The existence of the unusual readings of the Gospel of Matthew in these two lectionaries allows us to classify them as textologically homogeneous Church Slavonic manuscripts of the abbreviated lectionary.

Saving the Selves or Saving the Others? Responses to Old Catholicism in Late Imperial Russia

Author(s): Mikhail Suslov / Language(s): English Issue: 41/2020

This paper examines Messianic thought in Russia through political and theological debates on the Old Catholic movement. The Old Catholic Church emerged as a reaction to the first Vatican Council (1870) with the program of reconnecting with the Lutheran, Anglican and Orthodox Churches on the theological foundation, laid out by the Church fathers and Church councils of the first ten centuries of Christianity. The Old Catholic question, which initially appeared as one of purely ecclesiological and perhaps theological interest, was broadly aired and discussed by literally every significant Russian public figure in the 1870s–1900s. Although Old Catholicism per se and its relations with the Russian Orthodox Christianity have not been successful to date, it induced the crystallization of a network of sympathizers in the Russian Empire. For them, Old Catholicism was a means to voice their discontent with the official Church and to shape their alternative visions about Russian Orthodoxy in world history. The Old Catholic movement stirred up religious and geopolitical hopes and initiated important ideological and theological discussions, which revolved around such questions as, what is Russia’s role in the world, and how can religious principles be implemented in everyday life.

Текстовата традиция на старобългарския превод на Слово за Усекновение на Йоан Кръстител (BHG 859)

Author(s): Hristina Davidkova / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 02/2020

The Homily In decollationem Praecursoris et Baptistae Joannis, et in Herodiadem (BHG 859/CPG 4570), which is often attributed to John Chrysostom, was translated in the early Old Bulgarian period. The present article examines the text-critical tradition of the Old Bulgarian translation based on three copies of the Homily on the Beheading of St. John the Baptist which are preserved in calendar collections. Differencies in text completeness and lexical variants are traced in the three sources. The analysis shows that the Jagicev Zlatoust contains the most individual features and ms Cetinje 50 has the least deviations from the prototranslation. The last mentioned copy shares a lot common variant readings with the Mihanović homiliary, which leads to the idea that they belong to the same branch of the manuscript tradition, although they do not originate from the same prototype.

ОТ СОЛОВКОВ ДО БУТОВО: РУССКАЯ ПРАВОСЛАВНАЯ ЦЕРКОВЬ И ПАМЯТЬ О СОВЕТСКИХ РЕПРЕССИЯХ В ПОСТСОВЕТСКОЙ РОССИИ

Author(s): Veronika Dorman / Language(s): Russian Issue: 2/2010

30 октября 2007 года, в День памяти жертв политических репрессий, президент Российской Федерации Владимир Путин впервые принял участие в официальной церемонии, организованной в честь памяти жертв советского режима на Бутовском полигоне. А за три месяца до этого на полигон с Соловецких островов по каналам, вырытым руками миллионов зеков, был доставлен монументальный крест.

Правовое и экономическое положение православного духовенства в 1930-е годы на юге Западной Сибири

Author(s): Peter Konstantinovich Dashkovskiy,Natalia Petrovna Zibert / Language(s): Russian Issue: 31/2020

The Resolution “On Religious Associations” and other normative legal acts adopted by the Soviet government during the 1930s were aimed at the gradual destruction of religious life. this paper analyzes methods of work used by the Soviet state to prevent the spread of religious creeds in the West Siberian Territory, which negatively affected the position of the Orthodox clergy. In addition, the attitudes of various segments of the population to changes taking place in spiritual life are discussed. During this period, worshipers were subject to numerous compulsory fees and were involved in various labor duties. At the same time, the elimination of priests as a class was accompanied and complicated by numerous conflicts of priests and parish church councils, as well as with local authorities. A serious problem was the desecration of churches and the frequent theft of church property, which greatly complicated, and often made impossible, the holding of church services. The increase in retail prices in 1931 ravaged the parishioners of many churches and put worshipers in an extremely distressing situation. At the same time, the repression of clergy intensified, during which many were arrested and executed. The reduced number of clergymen threatened the functioning or even existence of many parishes in Western Siberia, and the intensification of persecution of clergy after 1937, along with the active closure of churches, led to the disappearance of the Barnaul diocese, with its territories becoming part of the Novosibirsk diocese by 1940.

Teologiczne wątki maryjne mozaik Centro Aletti w sanktuarium św. Jana Pawła II w Krakowie

Author(s): Lucjan Bartkowiak / Language(s): Polish Issue: 1/2021

The post-conciliar liturgical indications, of which the free-standing altar with the priest celebrating the liturgy „facing the faithful” became a visible sign, freed the presbytery walls of newly built churches from large altar extensions. The situation became a kind of call for the creators of sacred art, providing an opportunity to return to the noble mosaic art, whose monumental works of the first millennium have survived to this day. It is enough to mention the temples of Ravenna, Palermo or Rome itself. Their iconographic programs, rich in form and content, are continued in the large-format, contemporary altar mosaics by Father Marko Ivan Rupnik, in which a refined artistic form intertwines with a well-thought-out theological concept, showing the vitality of tradition at the threshold of the third millennium. The aim of this article is to present the basic Marian theological themes present in the largest complex set of mosaics that has been built in Poland in recent years.

Гласник Удружења архивских радника Републике Српске – Година IV, бр. 4

Author(s): S. Petrović / Language(s): Serbian Issue: 3/2012

Câteva documente din fondul mănăstirii Adam, Județul Galați

Author(s): Costin Clit / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 1/2020

The Adam Monastery, dedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, the foundation of Adam the Captain, prior to 1652, located on Apărătura Hill, in the Ghenghei Forest, was the focus of several historical researchws. The fund of Adam monastery, very rich in documents, preserved today in the National Archives of Iași, came under our scrutiny. In the past, the monastery was administratively located in the past in Tutova and Covurlui counties. Today, it is located in Galati county. Previously, it was under the jurisdiction of Husi diocese. In this article, we publish 29 original documents related to the Adam monastery, dating from the period between 1648-1841.

Rival Narratives, Competing Memoirs and the Issue of Canonization of the Martyrs of the Romanian Orthodox Church from the Communist Period

Author(s): George Enache / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2020

The Romanian Orthodox Church has developed in the public space, after 1989, its own narrative about the sufferings endured during the communist regime, highlighting the names of those persons (priests, monks or laypersons) who were detained in the communist prisons as martyrs of faith. Through this discourse, the church wanted to answer those who accused it of collaborating with the communist regime but, at the same time, to recover a memory of the suffering that most of the population was not aware of.Thirty years after the fall of communism, although there have been monuments built and many books have been written about the crimes of Communism, the Church has not officially proclaimed any victim of the communist regime, dead for faith, as a saint of the Orthodox church. This raises perplexity among believers and polemics in public space because, from a symbolic point of view, the act of canonization is, for a believer, the supreme act of consecrating the person's worthiness. The dilemma is the following: is the refusal of canonization an acceptance of the fact that the Romanian Orthodox Church did not have worthy priests during the communist period or has the church hierarchy been prevented from doing so? In this study, we will try to show what lies behind this impasse of religious consecration, but also of memory management.

PAMIĘĆ I (NIE)PAMIĘĆ: O BURZENIU CERKWI PRAWOSŁAWNYCH NA CHEŁMSZCZYŹNIE I POŁUDNIOWYM PODLASIU W 1938 ROKU

Author(s): Anna Moroz / Language(s): Polish Issue: 70/2021

In the article, I will present the history of the destruction of Orthodox churches in the Chelm region and southern Podlasie in Poland in 1938. This incident is an important element in the process of symbolizing the existence of the Orthodox Church in Poland, which is why the memory of trauma is a feature of the memory of Orthodox people. This incident does not actually exist in the public discourse, it is unknown, and what is more, it does not fit the common Polish perception of the Second Polish Republic. The trauma of this incident in the Orthodox community is part of the post-memory discourse, which means that the next generations also experience trauma.

Okupacja Ukrainy przez Sowietów i dzieje Kościoła podziemnego w latach 1946–1989

Author(s): Witalij Kotyk / Language(s): Polish Issue: 17/2019

The 20th century was a very difficult period of time for the Greek-Catholic Church in Ukraine. In the year 1946 new communist invaders started to fight religion in Western Ukraine. They have organized so called “council” in Lviv in order to suppress UGCC. Despite that Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church did not seized to exist. Bishops, priests and faithfuls have survived the time of persecution in the underground. This was the time of great testimony to the faithfulness of our people to the Catholic Church and to the Holy See. That testimony was strengthen by blood of many martyrs: bishops, priest, religious and faithfuls. In the year 1989, when Soviet Union was about to collapse, UGCC has raised from underground to the new life. In 2001 saint pope John Paul II has acknowledged the great sacrifice of Ukrainian martyrs and has beatified 27 of them.

Męczeństwo i zniewolenie Rosyjskiej Cerkwi Prawosławnej w latach 1917-1970

Author(s): Marian Radwan / Language(s): Polish Issue: 2/2021

The Russian Orthodox Church was deprived of a patriarch by the tsar Peter I the Great in 1721 and since then had been ruled by every next monarch. The position of a patriarch was restored in 1917, when the Synod chose Tikhon Biellavin (died in 1925), by secret voting. When the Russian Provisional Government was overthrown by bolsheviks, the new government started to subordinate the Orthodox Church. There were many attempts of destroying the Orthodox Church by pro-government religious groups, deceptional taking over the Orthodox administration, accusing the Patriarch Tikhon, and executing people defending churches during sacral pretiosas depriving action. The Orthodox Church’s independence was cut short in 1927 after the so-called Declaration of Metropolitan Sergei Stragorodski was published. Since then, his opponents had been persecuted, and his supporters had got promoted. The process of the Russian Orthodox Church enslavement ended when the Council of the Russian Orthodox Church Affairs with the security service officer Karpow as a director was established. The Council had its impact on the election of patriarchs Stragorodski and Simansky and bishops nominations. Orthodox churches, theological schools, monasteries, were liquidated massively, the number of dioceses was reduced, as well. On the Karpov’s and the government order, there was an unsuccessful attempt of establishing the Orthodox Vatican in Moscow. Patriarchs Stragorodsky and Simansky ruled according to governmental demands, not faithful people’s needs.

ICONOGRAPHY OF PLATO IN ANTIQUITY AND IN MEDIEVAL ORTHODOX PAINTING

Author(s): Daniil Dorofeev,Roman Svetlov,Mikhail I. Mikeshin,Marina A. VASILYEVA / Language(s): English Issue: 1/2021

The article is devoted to the topic of visualization, which is relevant for the modern world in general and scientific knowledge in particular, investigated through the image of Plato in Antiquity and in medieval Orthodox painting. Using the example of Plato’s iconography as a visual message, the authors want to show the great potential for the development of the visual history of philosophy, anthropology and culture in general, as well as the new visually oriented semiotics and semantics of the image. This approach reveals expressively and meaningfully its relevance for the study of Plato’s image, together with other ancient philosophers’ images, in Orthodox medieval churches in Greece, Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria and, of course, ancient Russia in the 15th-17th cc, allowing to see the great ancient Greek philosopher from a new perspective.

Беларускi сенатар Польшчы Вячаслаў Багдановiч

Author(s): Jurij Łabyncew,Łarysa Szczawinskaja / Language(s): Belarusian Issue: 13/2021

The article discusses life and work of Vyacheslav Bogdanovich (1878–1939/1940?), an outstanding figure of Belarusian national movement, a senator of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. The son of a Belarusian Orthodox priest, he became one of the most recognized intellectual leaders of his nation, a talented writer, a skilled polemicist and a politician. V. Bogdanovich is the author of many different works. Special attention is paid to his articles devoted to the poetry of Yanka Kupala and Yakub Kolas as well as hagiographic studies related to the mission of the Orthodox patrons of Belarus – Anthony, John and Eustafij. The problem of autocephaly of the Orthodox Church in Poland, which became disastrous for V. Bogdanovich, affected all aspects of his multilateral activities. It also had a direct impact on his description of such topics as “Belarusian spiritual heritage”, “languages of the Orthodox Church”, “the people and the intelligentsia”, “the church and the state”. The last days of V. Bogdanovich’s life were tragic. He was released from Polish detention in September 1939, less than a month later he was arrested in Vilnus by the NKVD and went missing.

Danii româneşti în favoarea aşezămintelor ortodoxe sud-dunărene. Noi mărturii documentare

Author(s): Gheorghe Lazăr / Language(s): Romanian Issue: 67/2021

La reconstitution de l’aide accordé par les princes roumains, depuis les premiers siècles de l’existence des deux principautés extra-carpatiques et jusqu’au moment de la sécularisation de la richesse des monastères à l’époque d’Alexandre Ioan Cuza (1863), reste encore un objectif à accomplir dans l’historiographie roumaine, bien que les recherches réalisées dans ce sens au cours des dernières décennies soient plus que remarquables et aussi prometteuses. Malgré ces efforts et ces bénéfices historiographiques on trouve encore, dans les archives du pays ou de l’étranger, de nombreux « miettes » documentaires de ce genre qui attendent encore d’être récupérés et qui contribueront sans doute à une meilleure connaissance de cette réalité. Les documents analysés et publiés par l’auteur dans cette étude sont également un témoignage dans cette direction. Ayant comme point de départ les données fournies par les documents au-dessus mentionnées, dans une première section l’auteur reconstitue l’historique des liens entre le monastère de Vlatadon (Thessalonique, Grèce) et Valachie, à partir de l’année 1587 jusqu’au milieu du XVIIIe siècle. Dans la deuxième section, l’auteur offre des détails sur les contacts, inconnus jusqu’au à ce moment dans l’historiographie roumaine, entre la Moldavie et l’établissement monastique – dont l’existence ne semble pas également être connue – de Schepastos / Chepastos, tout près de la ville d’Adrianopol (aujourd’hui Edirne, en Turquie), mise sous le patronage de la Sainte Vendredi. Dans l’annexe de l’étude, l’auteur publie le texte intégral des neuf documents découverts et qui ont été à la base de son analyse.

МИТОТВОРЧЕСТВОТО КАТО ПРЕНАСЯНЕ НА САКРАЛНОСТ (РАЗМИСЛИ ВЪРХУ „ИСТОРИЯ СЛАВЯНОБЪЛГАРСКА“ НА ПРЕП. ПАИСИЙ ХИЛЕНДАРСКИ)

Author(s): Iveta Rasheva / Language(s): Bulgarian Issue: 19/2021

The following report shows the ethnosaving function of the images of St. Cyril and St. Methodius in “History” by Paisius. The interpretation includes an overlook of the possible sources used by the author, while he had been writing the chapter “For the Slav Teachers”; it gives short reports about the cult of Cyril and Methodius from the ninth century to 1762 and searches for the author’s purposes in his own cult project.