Theophylact (Savkin), the Hegumen of the Kazanskiy skit of the Old-Believers’ Belokrinitskiy Consent, and His Epistolary Heritage
N.A. Starukhin
Keywords: Belokrinitskiy consent, monarchism, Chasovennye, polemics
Abstract
The paper considers works by hegumen Theophylact (Savkin), a writer of great originality who belonged to the Belokrinitskiy monkhood. Based on the extant epistolary heritage of the Siberian monk the author defines stages of his creative life; analyzes his epistles; determines key trends in the outer- and inner-Old Believers’ polemics of the Siberian “Austrians”.
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