The crisis of religious toleration in Imperial Russia : Bibikov’s system for the Old Believers, 1841-1855 PDF
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THE CRISIS OF RELIGIOUS TOLERATION IN IMPERIAL RUSSIA OXFORD HISTORICAL MONOGRAPHS TheOxfordHistoricalMonographsseriespublishessomeofthebest Oxford University doctoral theses on historical topics, especially thoselikelytoengagetheinterestofabroadacademicreadership. Editors P. CLAVIN J. DARWIN J. INNES J. McDOUGALL D. PARROTT S. SMITH B. WARD-PERKINS J. L. WATTS W. WHYTE The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia ’ Bibikov s System for the Old Believers, – 1841 1855 THOMAS MARSDEN 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries #ThomasMarsden2015 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2015 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2015932088 ISBN 978–0–19–874636–2 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. In memory of Ronald and Marion Hope Acknowledgements I researched andwrotemy doctoral thesiswhile holdingthePeter Storey ScholarshipatBalliolCollege.Thepresentbookthusowesitsexistenceto Mark Storey, who was responsible for setting up the scholarship, to the UniversityofOxfordFacultyofHistory,andtoBalliolCollege,whichalso providedadditionalfundingforresearchtrips.Iamenormouslygratefulto them all for their generosity. I would also like to thank the British AcademyandtheSchoolofSlavonicandEastEuropeanStudies,Univer- sity College London—the work of turning the thesis into a monograph was completed during my first year as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at SSEES. I am thankful to John Watts and to the Oxford Historical Monographs Committee for their consideration of my thesis inthefirstplace,andfortheirpatienceinawaitingthedeliveryofthefinal manuscript. Ihavebeenassistedinmyresearchbytheexcellentfacilitiesandready expertise of numerous research institutions. In particular I should like to thank the staff of the Russian State Historical Archive, the Russian NationalLibrary,andtheInstituteofRussianLiteratureinStPetersburg; theStateArchiveoftheRussianFederationinMoscow;andtheBodleian Library,theBritishLibrary,andtheUCLSSEESlibrary.Inaddition,Iam grateful to the Russian National Library, to the Institute of Russian Literature, and to the State Historical Museum (GIM) for granting me permission to use, as illustrations in this book, materials found in their collections. Myresearchandwritinghavebenefitedfromthegoodadviceandkind encouragement of numerous people. As my supervisor throughout my graduate studies, and more recently my advising editor, Katya Andreyev has been a constant source of positivity and scholarly direction. I am especially grateful to Martin Conway, who has been incredibly generous withhistimeandexpertisetoguidemetowardsabetterunderstandingof the significance of my findings, while ensuring that I did not ignore the wider European context, and that I kept moving when progress stalled. Many thanks are also due to Simon Dixon whose support over the past few years has been invaluable both to the completion of this monograph andtothefurtherdevelopmentoftheresearchthatiscontainedwithinit. The feedback of those named above, and of Julia Mannherz, Gregory Freeze,andFionaWhitehouse,whohaveallcloselyreadandcommented viii Acknowledgements on drafts of this book, have helped to make it a better work, though its shortcomingsare,ofcourse,downtomealone. Finally, I thank my friends and family. Liz Hall, my grandfather Bill Marsden,andmygrandparentsRonaldandMarionHopearenothereto seethepublicationofthebook,butatvariousstagesofitspreparationthey provided such support, without which it could never have been com- pleted.IamsimilarlyindebtedtoPhil,Tony,andSally,mygrandmother Molly,myparentsMarionandMartin,andtoHazel. Contents ListofIllustrations xi ListofAbbreviations xiii NotetotheReader xv Introduction 1 I. ORIGINS OF THE CRISIS: 1841–52 1. TheBelaiaKrinitsaHierarchy 33 2. ThePreobrazhenskoeCemetery 56 3. TheBegunyCommissionandtheStatisticalExpeditions 83 II. THE CRISIS UNFOLDS: 1853–55 4. Bibikov’sSystem 121 5. TheFailureofLegality 148 6. TheCrimeanWarandtheDomesticEnemy 169 7. TheOffensiveagainsttheCapitalist-Fanatics 190 8. TheEndofBibikov’sSystem 213 Epilogue 244 Conclusion 255 SelectedBibliography 261 Index 271
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