BASHNIN N.V. Elder Kapiton and the Monasteries Founded by Him
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.5.9
Nikita V. Bashnin,
Doctor of Sciences (History), Leading Researcher, Saint Petersburg Instituteof History of the Russian Academy of Science, Petrozavodakaya St, 7, 197110 Saint Petersburg, RussianFederation;
Associate Professor, Saint Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Arts, Universitetskaya Emb., 17,199034 Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation,
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Abstract. Introduction. The scientific literature pays considerable attention to the Old Believers and religious movements in the 17th century. It is believed that one of the leaders of the mass peasant movement of Old Believers was the preacher elder Kapiton. According to historians, from 1666 to 1897, about 20 thousand people burned down in Russia. These figures, as well as the fact that the tradition of self-immolation has existed for several centuries, indicate the relevance of covering the biography of one of the founders of the radical trend in the Old Believers of the 17th century, Elder Kapiton. Methods and materials. The method of archival heuristics made it possible to identify new documents in the fund 1260 in GAVO, collection 117 in the Archive of the SPBI RAS, and the fund 281 in RGADA. Comparative and retrospective methods were used to analyze these documents. Analysis. In the 1660s and 80s, self-immolations of “kapitons” took place in the Vologda and Belozersk dioceses, but they were not connected with the Kapiton monastery. Elder Kapiton came to the Vologda diocese and in 1630 founded the monastery of Holy Savior at Knyaginino, after which in 1634 he went to Kostroma county, where he built the Trinity Kolesnikov monastery, where the conflict occurred in 1639. In the monastery of Holy Savior at Knyaginino, after Kapiton’s departure, Daniel became abbot, but after his death, monastic life was interrupted in the 1660s and 90s. Results. In historiography, conflicts were associated with spiritual pursuits and the teachings of elder Kapiton, which contradicted the position of the official Church. However, one should also take into account the factor of a possible clash for land and commercial lands with peasants in Totemsky district and the rivalry for spiritual influence in the lively roadside village Danilovskiy, combined with the struggle for land in the district of this settlement with the Transfiguration Monastery. Funding. Research for this article was funded by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Grant No. 20-78-10060-П, https://rscf.ru/project/20-78-10060/.
Key words: elder Kapiton, medieval monasteries, folk religious movements of the 17th century, Vologda Archbishop’s House, monastery of Holy Savior at Knyaginino, clerical work, source studies.
Citation. Bashnin N.V. Elder Kapiton and the Monasteries Founded by Him. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 4. Istoriya. Regionovedenie. Mezhdunarodnye otnosheniya [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. History. Area Studies. International Relations], 2024, vol. 29, no. 5, pp. 97-110. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.5.9.
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