MAIASK. 2018. No. 10
V.V. Stepkin (Pavlovsk,
Russia)
CAVE DIGGING NEAR THE MALAYA ZNAMENKA
VILLAGE OF TAURIDA
GOVERNORATE IN 1870s
DOI: 10.24411/2219-8857-2018-00010
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Pages: 279—283
The source,
revealing manifestation of peasants’ mentality, is published and analyzed in
the article by the example of the cave functioning near the village of Malaya
Znamenka of Kamenskaya volost in Melitopol
parish of Taurida Governorate. This is the case “About peasant Zagvozdkin who
dug prayer caves in his garden by desire of a starets seen in his sleepof”
conducted from June 27th to September 12th of 1874 by the Synod, and kept in
the Russian State Historical Archive. Urgency of the commented article is in
the fact that it introduces new materials on the development of cave digging tradition
in the Tavricheskaya province in the Synodal period of the Russian Orthodox
Church. This allows to extend the timeframe of the cult caves existence in
the region concerned and to mark the ways of cave digging folk tradition.
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Key
words: Cave digging, Taurida Governorate, Malaya Znamenka,
Kamenka-Dneprovskaya, Nikifor Zagvozdkin, the Russian Orthodox Church, Folk
Orthodoxy.
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Received December 01, 2018
Accepted for publication December 22, 2018
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