УДК 281. 93 “18/19”
POMOR POLEMICAL WRITING “CONFESSION OF FAITH OF MY UNWORTHINESS” EXTENSIVE EDITION (BASED ON FIELD RESEARCH ARCHAEOGRAPHIC MATERIALS)
Nikolay A. Starukhin
Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia
Abstract. The article introduces a lengthy edition of the original polemical essay “Confession of Faith of My Unworthiness” into scientific circulation. The essay is currently available in the only list that was obtained during field research in recent years by Novosibirsk archeographers, and belongs to the original writer-Old Believer G.E. Tokarev. A fragment of this rather extensive treatise is published, most fully characterizing, in our opinion, G.E. Tokarev as a talented polemicist, who managed not only to accumulate in his work the main ideas of Old Believer literature, which was largely based on the best examples of Old Russian literature, but he also made a bold attempt to rethink certain doctrinal doctrines of the Pomeranian accord. Being a native of one of the famous Old Believer centers in the Nizhny Novgorod region, G.E. Tokarev, for his own reasons, becomes the founder of a new kind, which has become most widespread in the east of the country. Tokarev’s position will initially be supported by some of the mentors of the Urals and Altai, where the specified current will eventually receive its further development. The vicissitudes of the 1920s and 1930s will expand the area of distribution of communities of “Tokarevites” due to migration to more remote areas of Siberia and the Far East. The allocation of “Tokarevites” as an independent kind will be the result of the decisions of the Pomeranian councils of the beginning of the XX century, at which Tokarev’s teaching was declared heretical: 1905 in Samara and 1909 in Moscow. It was during this time period, as can be assumed, that the essay we are publishing was created. It is important to note that the organizational formalization of consent was the result of many years of controversy in Pomeranian societies on a number of key issues, and can be traced from available narrative sources since the 1870-s. As their analysis showed, the controversy contributed not only to the reinterpretation of texts authoritative for all Pomorians, but also significantly deepened interest in the literature of ideological opponents of the Old Believers, academic publications of the mid–XIX – early XX centuries.
Keywords: Old Believers, Pomor Agreement, controversy, G.E. Tokarev, Tokarevtsy, sources, archaeography.
For citation: Старухин, Н. А. Поморское полемическое сочинение«Исповедание веры моего недостоинства» пространной редакции (по материалам полевых археографических исследований) / Н. А. Старухин // Северные Архивы и Экспедиции. – 2023. – Т. 7, № 4. – С. 55-67. – EDN BTWTBH.
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