Foreign churches in St. Petersburg and their archives, 1703-1917 / edited by Pieter Holtrop and Henk Slechte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Holtrop, P. N.

Slechte, C. H.

Series:

Brill's series in church history ; d. 29.

Brill's series in church history, 1572-4107 ; v. 29

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Petersburg (Russia)--Church history--Congresses.

Saint Petersburg (Russia).

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

ix, 224 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Summary:

Walking the first mile of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the visitor is struck by the sight of the Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Armenian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. These buildings reflect the religious, cultural, and social diversity that has been characteristic of the city since Tsar Peter the Great invited thousands of foreigners from all over Western Europe to build this settlement at the estuary of the Neva River. On the occasion of the third centenary of St. Petersburg (2003), historians and archivists from Russia as well as other European countries convened to study the history of the city's foreign churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The resulting studies, published here, offer fascinating insights into the almost forgotten history of those churches and show how substantially they contributed to the religious, cultural, social, and economic history of St. Petersburg.

Contents:

Foreign Churches along the Nevski Prospekt: An Introduction / P.N. Holtrop, C.H. Slechte 1

Three Hundred Years of European Integration and Relations between Churches in St. Petersburg / Archpriest V. Fedorov 15

Economic Relations between Western Europe and Russia, 1600-1800 / J.W. Veluwenkamp 33

Swedish Churches in Russia and Their Historical Sources / E. Norberg 41

The Swedish Congregation of St. Petersburg: "Ett Tempel till Dyrkande af All Werldens Gud" / B. Jangfeldt 57

Dutch and Reformed in St. Petersburg / P.N. Holtrop 83

The Lost Battle of the Last Chairman: Francois Schmitt and the Decline of the Dutch Reformed Community in St. Petersburg, 1920-27 / Th.J.S. van Staalduine 97

The Anglican Church in St. Petersburg / K. Rundell 111

The Communications Network of Halle Pietists in Russia / M. Fundaminski 115

Herrnhut and Russia: Archival Records on Moravian Activity in Russia from the Unity Archives in Herrnhut, Germany / P.M. Peucker 129

The History of Expatriate Estonians in the Registers of the Congregation of St. Mary's in Tomsk / A. Must 141

Historical Sources on Foreign Churches in the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg / V.M. Shishkin 149

The Department for Spiritual Affairs of Foreign Confessions in the Ministry of the Interior / A.R. Sokolov 161

Sources on the History of Lutheran Churches in Russia in the Collections of the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg / T.I. Tatsenko, E.E. Knyazeva 173

Historical Sources on the Evangelical-Lutheran Churches of North-West Russia in the Central State Archive of St. Petersburg / M.V. Shkarovskii 183

Traces of the History of Estonian Churches in Russian Archives / T. Magi 189

Collections of the Roman Catholic and Uniate Spiritual Institutions in the Russian State Historical Archive / N.S. Krylov 195.

Notes:

Proceedings of a congress held in Oct. 2003 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004162600

9004162607

OCLC:

157023061