Spiritual and Public Ministry of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh and His School in the Cultural History of Russia

10.12737/4650 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 8-19
Author(s):  
Шафажинская ◽  
Natalya Shafazhinskaya
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Public Life ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
History Of ◽  
Under Construction ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Town ◽  
The Trinity

The paper concerns an outstanding milestone date for the national history and culture, key for further development of spiritual and moral ideals of the Russian public life and statehood — in 2014 the memory of the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh is celebrated. The Blessed Sergius, the Hegumen of Radonezh is an outstanding hermit, whose devoted ministry contributed to consolidating patriotic forces and emerging the unified Russian nation. Among his deeds are foundation of unique spiritual school, monastery culture reformation and establishing the actual foundation for publicly significant social and moral service of the Russian orthodox self-sacrifice. The paper presents and considers evidences, proving the high spiritual and historic and cultural significance of the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, founded by the Venerable Sergius of Radonezh. This monastery had become the first sanctuary of Moscow and an inspirational model for other convents under construction in that period. Yet within the lifetime of Venerable Sergius of Radonezh the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius due to the devoted efforts of his disciples, had become the archetype of religious enlightenment, ecclesiastic ministry, Motherland defense and charity for many emerging monasteries. «Northern Fivaida», the community of orthodox monasteries, had embraces the whole North of Russia with its network, encouraging it to gravitate to Moscow as the unified center. It was under the reign of Ivan Kalita and in the lifetime of the Venerable Sergius’s that Moscow got the high stand over other Russian cities after metropolitan Peter had left the town of Vladimir for Moscow. Moscow began to accumulate power and influence as the force, capable to unite separate Russian territories and put an end to violent internecine feuds. Meanwhile, Moscow was increasingly bolstering its posture as an administrative, political, spiritual and cultural center for the Russian statehood.

The 1884–1890 letters of the brethren of New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean, to Archimandrite Leonid (worldly Lev Kavelin)

2021 ◽  
pp. 275-294
Author(s):  
Marina S. Krutova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Economic Life ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Prominent Scientist ◽  
Russian State ◽  
History Of ◽  
State Library ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
The Trinity

The Department of Manuscripts of the Russian State Library contains letters of Hegumen Ieron (worldly Ivan Nosov-Vasil’yev), Schemamonk Innokentiy (worldly last name — Sibiryakov) and Iosif the monk, the brethren of New Athos Monastery, named after Simon the Canaanean, to Archimandrite Leonid (worldly Lev Kavelin), Rector of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, a prominent scientist, a prominent scholar of the Russian Orthodox Church, one of the most enlightened priests of the 19th century. In 1885, the book “Abkhazia and New Athos Monastery, Named after Simon the Canaanean, in It” by Archimandrite Leonid was a real event. The published letters were written by the brethren of the monastery, people of different cultural levels; but they are all imbued with a sense of gratitude to the author, who wrote a book about their holy monastery, which they love and care about the improvement of. Hegumen Ieron’s letters contain numerous details about the opening of Pitsunda Monastery as a skete of New Athos Monastery, about the restoration of the ancient Pitsunda temple, about its beautification and the forthcoming consecration. Schemamonk Innokentiy’s letters provide detailed information about the history of the Monastery, as well as some cartographic data needed by Archimandrite Leonid for his book. Monk Iosif ’s letter contains details of the economic life of the monastery.

scholarly journals ‘A Place full of Trade’: Placing an Early Modern Chinese Town in Global Cultural History

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 171-194
Author(s):  
Anne Gerritsen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
Global Connections ◽  
History Of ◽  
The One ◽  
The Town

This article focuses on the history of Wuchengzhen 吳 城 鎮, a small town in the inland province of Jiangxi. It explores the history of the town between 1500 and 1850 in terms of both its local significance as an entrepot for trade in grain and tea and its global connections to early modern Europe, by way of the trade in porcelain. The question this paper explores concerns the juxtaposition between, on the one hand, the idea gained from global historians, that during the early modern period, globally traded commodities like tea and porcelain situate a small town like this in a globalized, perhaps even unified or homogenous, world, and on the other hand, the insight gained from cultural historians, that no two people would ever see, or assign meaning to, this small town in the same way. Drawing on this insight, the history of Wuchengzhen is explored on the basis of different textual (administrative records, local gazetteers, merchant manuals) and visual sources (maps and visual depictions of the town), exploring the ways in which the different meanings of the town are constructed in each. The combination of global and cultural history places Wuchengzhen on our map of the early modern world.

Utopia’s Orphan

2018 ◽  
pp. 228-246
Author(s):  
Victoria Smolkin
Keyword(s):  
Communist Party ◽  
Public Life ◽  
The Political ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
History Of ◽  
Soviet Communism

This conclusion examines the demise of the Communist project, along with its vision to create an atheist society. Over the course of its history, Soviet atheism developed through direct engagement with religion. These engagements exposed atheism's contradictions, pointing to the deeper crisis within Soviet Communism. The conclusion first considers Mikhail Gorbachev's reintroduction of religion into Soviet public life, highlighted by his meeting with Patriarch Pimen (Izvekov) and the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, before explaining why Soviet Communism never managed to overcome religion or produce an atheist society. It also discusses the political transformations of perestroika and cites the history of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow as an allegory for the fate of religion and atheism under Soviet Communism. Finally, it asks why the Soviet Communist Party orchestrated the divorce between Communism and atheism, and between the party's Communist ideology and political power.

Warriors of Steel: Representations of Machinery and Technology in British Heavy Metal of the 1980s

2021 ◽  
pp. 362-381
Author(s):  
A.S. Kolesnik ◽  
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Keyword(s):  
Heavy Metal ◽  
Science Fiction ◽  
Cultural History ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New Wave ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Fantastic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
And Behavior

The New Wave of British Heavy Metal is a remarkable phenomenon in British cultural history of the 1980s. Trying to identify themselves and to indicate their reaction to the social and political context in the UK, young musicians turned to the representation of fantastic worlds. The language of the “fantastic” in early British heavy metal was primarily associated with themes of mechanization, heroics, epics, mythology, fantasy and science fiction. The musical form was often emphatically epic and majestic, designed to create an audio picture to the lyrics. Visual representations — large-scale, spectacular, often theatrical live performances — played an important role in the representation of the “fantastic”. The semiotic element consisted of the signs and symbols of heavy metal (mascots, occult themes, mythological creatures, technocratic motives), which were reflected not only in the design of album covers and the metal bands names, but also in the clothes and behavior of musicians and their fans. The paper examines the specifics of the fantastic language of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal bands and, first of all, the representation of technogenic motives: how machines and robots were depicted, what techniques were used to create machine soundscapes, how this topic was played up within live performances, and finally, what cultural significance did references to machines and technology have.

A Prehistoric Maritime Culture of the Okhotsk Sea

1964 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harumi Befu ◽  
Chester S. Chard
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Bering Sea ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Maritime Culture ◽  
Culture History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Northern Pacific ◽  
Northeastern Coast ◽  
Siberian Coast

AbstractThis paper analyzes the culture history of the little-known Okhotsk culture and makes suggestions about its relationships with neighboring cultures. The Okhotsk culture is important in understanding the cultural history of the northern Pacific because it shows no affinities with the Ainu and Japanese cultures and has an economy remarkably like that of the more distant Aleut and Eskimo. The Okhotsk culture appears to have historical relationships with cultures in Siberia and Manchuria. The maritime hunting economy of this culture was probably derived from the Eskimo via Bering Sea and the Siberian coast. Other cultural elements, the most noticeable being ceramics, were of mainland origin and served as an influential force in forming Okhotsk culture. Once established on Sakhalin, this culture moved southward along the northeastern coast of Hokkaido, where a secondary and later cultural center developed. Migrations up the Kuriles occurred shortly thereafter. This culture probably flourished for at least a thousand years, beginning in Sakhalin several centuries before Christ and persisting until sometime after A.D. 1000 and possibly until the 17th century in the Kuriles. Several unsolved problems concerning the Okhotsk culture are presented.

Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samantha Matthews
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Country Houses ◽  
Women's Culture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Poetic Practice ◽  
Changing Attitudes

‘Will you write in my album?’ Many Romantic poets were asked this question by women who collected contributions in their manuscript books. Those who obliged included Byron, Scott, Wordsworth, and Lamb, but also Felicia Hemans, Amelia Opie, and Sara Coleridge. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture presents the first critical and cultural history of this forgotten phenomenon. It asks a series of questions. Where did 1820s ‘albo-mania’ come from, and why was it satirized as a women’s ‘mania’? What was the relation between visitors’ books associated with great institutions and country houses, personal albums belonging to individuals, and the poetry written in both? What caused albums’ re-gendering from earlier friendship books kept by male students and gentlemen on the Grand Tour to a ‘feminized’ practice identified mainly with young women? When albums were central to women’s culture, why were so many published album poems by men? How did amateur and professional poets engage differently with albums? What does album culture’s privileging of ‘original poetry’ have to say about attitudes towards creativity, poetic practice, and the print marketplace? Album Verses recovers a distinctive subgenre of occasional poetry composed to be read in manuscript, with its own characteristic formal features, conventions, themes, and cultural significance. Unique albums examined include that kept at the Grande Chartreuse, those owned by Regency socialite Lady Sarah Jersey, and those kept by the Lake poets’ daughters. Album Verses and Romantic Literary Culture shows that album poetry reflects changing attitudes to identity, gender, class, politics, poetry, family dynamics, and social relations between 1780 and 1850.

The Havana Biltmore and the Buena Vista Social Club two iconic buildings in Havana, Cuba

2017 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 491-499
Author(s):  
Peter John Read ◽  
Marivic Wyndham
Keyword(s):  
Cultural History ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
Social Club ◽  
The Past ◽  
Country Club ◽  
Buena Vista ◽  
History Of ◽  
Social Turmoil ◽  
Made In

The authors trace the physical and cultural history of two iconic buildings in Havana, Cuba: the Havana Biltmore Yacht and Country Club and the Buena Vista Social Club. The ‘Biltmore’, now renamed the Club Havana, flourishes after several periods in which its survival was doubtful. The ‘Buena Vista’ had already long ceased its original functions at the time the film of that name was made in 1997. The article illuminates the enormous cultural significance with which certain buildings may be invested when the emotional title to the past is magnified by revolution and social turmoil.

Return of the Moscow Theological Academy to the walls of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra in 1948

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-103
Author(s):  
Алексей Константинович Светозарский
Keyword(s):  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Historic Buildings ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Spiritual Education ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Long Time ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Trinity

В настоящей статье читатель узнает об истории возобновления богословской и духовной жизни Московской духовной академии в стенах Троице-Сергиевой Лавры. Постепенно, шаг за шагом в ведение Церкви были переданы исторические здания Московской духовной академии. Во многом благодаря дипломатическому таланту Святейшего Патриарха Алексия, многочисленные письма с просьбами и ходатайствами в Совет по делам Русской Православной Церкви, возглавляемый Г. Г. Карповым, были удовлетворены. Однако это далось не просто. После встречи трёх иерархов нашей Церкви - митрополитов Сергия (Страгородского), Алексия (Симанского) и Николая (Ярушевича) - с главой правительства СССР И. В. Сталиным начался процесс воссоздания системы духовного образования. Но довольствоваться помещениями Новодевичьего монастыря из-за возрастающего количества студентов долго не получилось. Со временем сложилась благоприятная обстановка для возвращения Московской духовной академии в келью преподобного Сергия. Сложностям процесса передачи исторических зданий и посвящена данная статья. In this article the reader will learn about the history of the resumption of theological and spiritual life of the Moscow Theological Academy within the walls of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra. Gradually, step by step, the historic buildings of the Moscow Theological Academy were handed over to the Church. Largely due to the diplomatic talent of His Holiness Patriarch Alexis, numerous letters of request and petition to the Council on the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, headed by G. G. Karpov, were granted. However, this was not easy. After three hierarchs of our Church - Metropolitans Sergii (Stragorodskii), Alexii (Simanskii) and Nikolai (Yarushevich) - met with the head of the USSR government, Stalin, the process of recreating the system of spiritual education began. But it was not possible to be content with the premises of Novodevichy monastery due to the increasing number of students for a long time. Eventually, the conditions were favourable for the return of the Moscow Theological Academy to the cell of the Venerable Sergius. The complexities of the process of transferring the historic buildings are the subject of this article.

scholarly journals Aral Oasis as Potential Base for Development of the Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sultanova Dilshoda Namazovna ◽  
Suvonqulov Saydulla Makkamovich ◽  
Dusanov Zafar Zohirovich
Keyword(s):  
Significant Contribution ◽  
Aral Sea ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Benchmark Analysis ◽  
History Of ◽  
Creative Experience ◽  
First Time ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Town ◽  
Artistic Analysis

Given article is denoted of theoretical benchmark analysis - of geographical, climatic, ecologic, landscapes criteria’s of the nature of Aral oasis - as potential base for development of the tourism. It is studied, as particularly at Soviet period scientist seminal studied the Aral oasis at all points. It is given artistic analysis to Aral series of the artist in accompaniment with photo reproductions in 1959 year from works of painter. To enormous regret, the present-day youth nearly has not a full belief about fate Aral epidemic deaths. The examples is described about created card and scheme for forecasting of terrain of the town-port Muynak, created on miscellaneous method and already of needs in editions and addition last information. Row of the offers is given. In conclusion on the further development and improvement former Aral epidemic deaths, on inimitable of flora and fauna. The broad artistic analysis of the process is given in reconstruction of Aral museums in accompaniment with photo reproduction using work painter from 1960-2020. As a result of modern analyses with original museum of Aral Sea under opened by sky, as specific facility for development of the tourism is studied in our republic and have a questions, which expects their own decisions. The author is present for the first time in picturesque way in your attention, painting to interpretation, coming from it scientifically- creative experience. Given exploratory work, possible considers, as significant contribution to science in theories landscape architecture, archaeologies and history of art.

scholarly journals Purser of the Moscow Theological Academy Hieromonk Irenaeus (Dobrolyubov)

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-242
Author(s):  
Герасим Дьячков
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Character Traits ◽  
Russian Orthodox ◽  
Orthodox Church ◽  
Russian Orthodox Church ◽  
Imperial Palace ◽  
History Of ◽  
Personal Qualities ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Shed Light

Цель статьи - познакомить читателя с личностью одного из замечательных тружеников Московской духовной академии середины XIX в. - иеромонаха Иринея (Добролюбова). На основании сведений, полученных археологической экспедицией при исследовании некрополя Троице-Сергиевой лавры, и информации, хранящейся в библиотеке Московской духовной академии, удалось пролить свет на этапы устройства в Царских чертогах императорского дворца Покровского академического храма, прояснить обстоятельства сооружения Библиотеки, перестройки и перепланировки Царских чертогов, Классного, Инспекторского и Больничного корпусов, приспособление их к требованиям нового Устава духовных академий, а также узнать о деятельности эконома, о его личных качествах и чертах характера наставника. В итоге восполнен ещё один пробел в истории Русской Православной Церкви, Лавры и Академии. The purpose of the article is to acquaint the reader with the personality of one of the remarkable workers of the Moscow Theological Academy of the mid-19th century- Hieromonk Irenaeus (Dobrolyubov). Based on the information obtained by the archaeological expedition during the study of the necropolis of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, and information stored in the library of the Moscow Theological Academy, it was possible to shed light on the stages of the arrangement in the Imperial Palace of the Intercession Academic Church, to clarify the circumstances of the construction of the Library, the reconstruction and redevelopment of the Royal Palace, Classroom, Inspector and Hospital buildings, adapting them to the requirements of the new Charter of theological academies, as well as learn about the activities of the economist, about his personal qualities and the character traits of a mentor. As a result, one more gap in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church, Lavra and Academy was filled.

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