Religious tolerance and power in Russia in 1813–1824
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2026-1-49-64
Abstract
Practices of religious tolerance began to take shape in Europe in the 16th – 17th centuries under the influence of the Reformation. These European trends penetrated into Russia during the reign of Peter the Great. For two centuries Russia had a model of state-church relations which combined the predominance of Orthodoxy with tolerance of other religious traditions. However, in the second half of the reign of Alexander I, there was a departure from this system: instead of Orthodoxy, a mystical pan-Christian religiosity was put at the center. This model had exhausted itself by 1824, when a return to the previous system was made.
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E. Yu. Nazarenko
Voronezh Regional Museum
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Evgenii Yu. Nazarenko, Cand. of sci. (History)
29, Plekhanovskaya St., Voronezh, 394018
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Nazarenko E.Yu. Religious tolerance and power in Russia in 1813–1824. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2026;(1):49-64. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2026-1-49-64
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