ORLOV A.A. Thin Squeak of a Sparrow. The Case of Hieromonk Hieronymus of Solovki as a Manifestation of an Internal Ideological Conflict in Russia at the Beginning of the Reign of Nicholas I (1829–1830)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.5.10
Aleksandr A. Orlov,
Doctor of Sciences (History), Associate Professor, Professor, Departmentof New and Modern History of Europe and America of the Institute of History and Politics, MoscowPedagogical State University, Malaya Pirogovskaya St, 1, Bld. 1, 119435 Moscow, Russian Federation,
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Abstract. Introduction. By the time of Alexander I’s death in November 1825, the internal ideological conflict in Russia had reached its peak. The Decembrist Uprising proved that liberal reforms had put the country on the brink of revolution. In this regard, the aim of the article is to show the chaotic situation in which the new emperor, Nicholas I, had to develop and affirm in the public consciousness different versions of state policy from the previous ones. Methods. The research methods are the case study method, which consists in analyzing the documents deposited in the State Archives of the Russian Federation on the investigation in the Third Department of His Imperial Majesty Chancellery of the case of Hieromonk Hieronymus of the Great Tikhvin Monastery, as well as classical methods of analysis, primarily the method of historical anthropology, which shows in this example the reaction of representatives of different social groups in Russia to the crisis. This subject has not yet been studied in Russian historiography. It is studied on the basis of unpublished documents of the State Archives of the Russian Federation. Analysis. At the beginning of the 19th century, Russian society was in a state of constant upheaval. The representatives of the highest authorities were not confident that they could count on the support of the nobility as a single corporation or the foreign servicemen who occupied responsible posts. But the danger of the situation also lay in the fact that the authorities could not and did not want to rely on representatives of the underprivileged strata of society, to which Hieronymus belonged. Results. The article concludes that the extreme centralization of government was a forced step by Nicholas I in order to stop any ideological polemics that were destroying the state. This affected many, including even those who, like Hieromonk Hieronymus, who had certain fame in religious circles and among the laity, could create public sentiments that would contribute to the future perception of the famous ideological triad of Nicholas’s reign (the theory of official nationality).
Key words: Russian Emperor Nicholas I, A.Kh. Benkendorf, Admiral A.S. Greig, Third Department of His Imperial Majesty Chancellery, Hieromonk Hieronymus of the Great Tikhvin Monastery, Hieroschemamonk Hieronymus of Solovky, ideological crisis in Russian society at the beginning of the 19th century.
Citation. Orlov A.A. Thin Squeak of a Sparrow. The Case of Hieromonk Hieronymus of Solovki as a Manifestation of an Internal Ideological Conflict in Russia at the Beginning of the Reign of Nicholas I (1829–1830). 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. 111-123. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu4.2024.5.10.
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