Photo, Print, Drawing Molennai︠a︡ v skitu matushki Afanasii.

Title

• Molennai︠a︡ v skitu matushki Afanasii.

Other Title

• Моленная в скиту матушки Афанасии.

Translated Title

• A Worship Place in Mother Afanasia's Hermitage.

Summary

• The monasteries of the Pomorskie Sect of Old Believers, visited by archeographers from Novosibirsk, were the successors to the Pokrovskii women's monastery built there at the very beginning of the twentieth century with the financial support of Savva Morozov, a well-known textile mill owner who belonged to the Pomorskie Sect. (During this same period he was also financing underground Bolshevik-Leninist organizations.) Old photographs of the nuns at this monastery have been preserved.This monastery traditionally maintained close religious and economic ties with the local peasantry and the wealthy farming families of Old Believers in the Altai. The prosperous Altai peasantry offered stiff resistance (including armed resistance) to Soviet rule and the policy of "war communism" and collectivization. The harsh repression of this resistance took a toll on the Altai Old Believer communities and their book collections. For example, on the northern slopes of the Altai, in Uimon Valley, and on the Koksa River, where the richest Old Believer farms were devastated, a large collection of manuscripts and early printed books also was destroyed. A few miraculously spared sixteenth-century volumes were among the most valuable discoveries of the expeditions by the specialists from the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.When Siberian archeographers began travelling to the Altai Old Believer communities in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they found that the former prosperity was long gone, and the other valleys that had flourished before 1917 had become nearly depopulated. This was an ideal location for the secretive settlements of hermits, many of whom had once been nuns of the Pokrovskii monastery, while others had come from all parts of the country, e.g., Kuban', which had maintained intensive correspondence with the Pomorskie Sect.In their way of life, the adherents of the Pomorskie Sect in Altai were less closed than, for example, the Tuva schismatics. Many of the monastery residents were quite willing to be photographed. The photograph taken of the superior of the main monastery, Mother Afanasiia, was placed alongside the icons in the chapel after her death. World Digital Library.

Created / Published

• Rudnyĭ Altaĭ, verkhov'i︠a︡ reki Uba : [publisher not identified], ii︠u︡l' 1970 g.

Headings

• -  staroobri︠a︡dt︠s︡y
• -  arkheografii︠a︡
• -  ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡
• -  t︠s︡erkov'
• -  skit
• -  ikona
• -  Altaĭ
• -  старообрядцы
• -  археография
• -  экспедиция
• -  церковь
• -  скит
• -  икона
• -  Алтай

Notes

• -  Original image at: Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Medium

• 1 photograph : 2.3 x 3.4 cm ; slaid cherno-belyi.

Source Collection

• Photographs from Archeological Expeditions to Old Believer Monasteries (Rudnyi Altai, Headwaters of the Uba River, 1970-71)

Digital Id

• https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.ndlpcoop/mtfxph.wa00015

Library of Congress Control Number

• 2018685468

Online Format

• image

LCCN Permalink

• https://lccn.loc.gov/2018685468

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