Ipatievsky Vestnik № 4 (24), 2023

The article discusses a practical issue related to the way references to the Holy Scriptures are made. Various existing options which are currently used in official publications of the Moscow Patriarchate and other authoritative church publishing houses of the Russian Orthodox Church, are studied. The author comes to the conclusion that two options are currently widespread, one of which is recommended to be followed in written scientific works on theology. At the end of the article there is a table of the full names of biblical books and their abbreviations in Russian and English, which are used today in bib-lical scholarship.

This brief study is an examination of the practical fulfillment of the Divine Liturgy at the beginning of the 21st century from the notes of the “Service book” of the pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods of Russian history. Elements of comparison and an attempt to explain changes in the liturgical book were used. The work is important for both liturgical and church historical disciplines.

The article provides information about the chronologically second (after the so-called Minain or Milyutinskaya), but in terms of volume the most extensive and meaning-ful edition of the famous literary monument of the 17th century — “Tales of the Appearance and Miracles of the Theodore Icon of the Mother of God.” The time of creation of the edi-tion, its presumed author (archpriest of the Assumption Cathedral of the Kostroma Kremlin Theodore), differences from the first edition, and historical inaccuracies in the text are indi-cated. The publications of the editorial text according to its various lists, carried out by I.V., are listed. Bazhenov (1909), O.N. Radeeva (2011), A.V. Fedorov (2012). The appendix pub-lishes the text of an extensive edition of “The Tales...” based on a list that has not previously attracted the attention of researchers, but is of particular interest, now stored in the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts.

This article is devoted to Patriarch Nikon (an outstanding and unique personality for Russian Church history) and his path to the adoption of the great schema — a full and per-fect rank of monastic vows admission and the highest form of renunciation of the worldly things. Patriarch Nikon is the only Patriarch who accepted the schema and sources testify to his scheming, but historiography has not paid deserved attention to this. This fact has not received sufficient coverage in research, and therefore is of great interest both to biographers and historians, and to the average reader, due to the exceptionally impor-tant role of the Patriarch in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian State. The thorny path of the Patriarch, who put a lot of effort into the organization of the Russian Church, was crowned with his acceptance of the great schema. This article is devo- ted both to this issue and to the location of his scheme after his repose. In the course of the study, original handwritten sources of the indicated period and sub-ject matter, as well as evidence from historians, were studied.

The article is devoted to the emergence and activities of a little-known and extremely small non-canonical religious group known as the “Old Orthodox Church of the Kerzhensky consent”, which claims to be an ideological and historical succession from the Nizhny Novgorod Old Believers, which in fact is a derivative of the liberal and largely reform-ist and non-canonical “Cathedral Orthodox Apostolic Church”. The creation of such a com-munity is a typical challenge to church unity not only for the canonical Orthodox Church, but also for the traditional Old Belief concords that accept the priesthood. Based on the foregoing, we can conclude that this religious organization, despite the presence of state registration, has not become a noticeable phenomenon in the multi-confessional palette of both Russia in general and Nizhny Novgorod region in particular.

The publication of the almanac of the KCIO "Svetoch" in the early 2000s was not only an event in the scientific and church life of Kostroma, but was evidence of the revival of church intellectual capabilities, the discovery and revival of entire areas of development of church science. The content of the almanac in terms of depth, relevance, and scientific na-ture of the materials presented in it and the topics published, took its rightful place not only among the church publications of those years, but among the publications of the academic order. The relevance and citation of its materials, imitation of its meaningful design does not pass over the years, which makes the publication unique.

The paper examines two syllabic epitaphs of the beginning of the first third of the 18th century. The first was carved on the tombstone of Vasily Vasilyevich Sheremetev (1691–1729) in the Moscow Epiphany Monastery, the second — on the tomb-stone of Alexander Petrovich Saltykov (1693–1732) in the Anastasiin Epiphany Monastery in Kostroma. The first served as a military judge in the Admiralty, the second was a cavalry officer who participated in many battles of the Northern War. Both epitaphs glorified the military exploits of the addressees. However, the acrostic, which is read by the first letters of the left column of both inscriptions, shows that the epitaph In V. Sheremeteva was borrowed for the tombstone of A. P. Saltykov, shows that the epitaph of V. V. Sheremetev was borrowed for the tombstone of A. P. Saltykov. The article concludes that the borrowing of the epitaph was connected with the system of values of the Russian nobility that developed in the era of Peter the Great

Anti-monarchical and anti-religious views of the Russian liberal community, their sympathies for Western parliamentarism were one of the significant reasons for the col-lapse in 1917 of the powerful, prosperous and rapidly developing Russian Empire in technical and economic terms. The expected abolition of the monarchy did not bring the intelligentsia either freedom or material well-being. The article examines the post-revolutionary fate of intellectuals in Soviet Russia using the example of the life of one woman and her relatives, showing her return to faith in God after many decades of unbelief and His merciful percep-tion of a soul lost from youth on the verge of death.

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