Khristianstvo na blizhnem Vostoke

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Authors: Kirill M. Ivanisov

Based on a number of historical sources, newspaper materials, the article highlights the activities of Bishop Veniamin (Fedchenkov) as a member of the Supreme Provisional Church Administration in the south-east of Russia and the head of the military and naval clergy in 1920. In addition, during this period, Bishop Veniamin combined the duties of a vicar Bishop of the Taurida Diocese, Administrator of the Military and Naval Clergy with the duties of Administrator of the parts of the Kuban and Black Sea Diocese liberated from the Bolsheviks. The article analyzes the composition of the clergy in the entrusted dioceses. A number of initiatives are noted that have received broad support from the authorities and the people: Days of Repentance, the founding of the Order of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, a nationwide collection of donations, the publishing house of Tserkovnye Vedomosti, the organization of shelters at monasteries for the defenders of the Motherland who have lost their ability to work, the establishment of awarding clergy with the badge of pastoral distinction and others.

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Authors: Besik V. Khurtsilava

The article describes the main events in the life and work of the outstanding Italian archaeologist and explorer of the Holy Land, prof. Virgilio Canio Corbo. As a result of numerous archaeological excavations, he revealed such remarkable Christian monuments as Herodion, Macherus, Magdala, Capernaum, etc. The rich material he found during excavations deserves a prominent place in the exposition of the Terra Sancta Museum in Jerusalem. The excavations carried out by V. Corbo in Bir el-Qutt (Palestine) turned out to be extremely important for Georgian culture. Here he discovered the ruins of a Georgian monastery from the Byzantine era. The ancient inscriptions (V–VI cent.) found here are of great importance for the study of the origins of Georgian monasticism in the Holy Land. In the article, the author separately deals with the issue of relations between Prof. V. Corbo and the Georgian Scientific Society, talks in detail about the existing problems in establishing contacts between the sides, etc.

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Authors: Ioann N. Kudlasevich

The study is devoted to the study of Russian-Athonite relations in the second half of the XIX century, when Mount Athos was inevitably drawn into the orbit of the geopolitical interests of both Russian and Britain. The main theme of the article is Greek-Russian conflict in the St. Panteleimon Monastery which had reached its climax by the mid-1870s. According to the archival records and the materials published in the last decade, one can trace Archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin’s) participation in the role of a church diplomat in the process of solving the problems of the Russian monasticism on Mount Athos during the period of anti-Russian tension in the Orthodox East.