V. Apanasenok A.

«THERE IS NO PRAY FOR THE VICTORY OF RUSSIAN ARMS»: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCIAL BAPTISM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR

Authors

V. Apanasenok A.

Keywords:

Russian province, Baptism, Evangelical preaching, confes-sional policy, religious freedom, the World War I.

Abstract

The work is devoted to the history of stundo-baptism in the Russian prov-ince on the eve of the 1917 revolution. Тhe authors analyze the relation-ship of modernization processes with development of the Evangelical movement, examining attitudes of local authorities, the Orthodox clergy, peasants towards Evangelical ideas. Based on the analysis of archival doc-uments of the World War I era, the paper shows the problems of Evangeli-cal Christians arisen during the conflict of «Orthodox» Russia and «Protestant» Germany. Reference to the correspondence of the regional executive authorities and Orthodox diocesan structures of 1915–1916, al-lowed to demonstrate disagreement about the prospects of the Evangelical movement in military terms among representatives of the local elite. In the end of the paper the authors conclude that adoption of the principle of reli-gious freedom by pre-revolutionary Russian provincial society was diffi-cult but doubtless.

«THERE IS NO PRAY FOR THE VICTORY OF RUSSIAN ARMS»: FROM THE HISTORY OF THE PROVINCIAL BAPTISM DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR