Cover -- The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia: Bibikov's System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855 -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Archives -- Archival notation -- Published works -- Note to the Reader -- Introduction -- The Orthodox Schism -- Religious Toleration -- Nicholas I -- State-Building -- Nation-Building -- Social and Economic Change -- Overview -- Part One: Origins Of The Crisis: 1841-52 -- 1: The Belaia Krinitsa Hierarchy
""The Old Believers and Revolution""""Religious Legitimacy""; ""Foreign Interference and International Conspiracy""; ""Political or Religious Criminals""; ""2: The Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery""; ""Alexander I and The Fedoseevtsy""; ""Nicholas I and The Search For Rational Consistency""; ""Regulating Old Believer Institutions""; ""The Threat of The Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery in the 1840s""; ""Exact Legality and Civil Rights""; ""3: The Beguny Commission and the Statistical Expeditions""; ""Experts on the Narod""; ""Ivan Aksakov: an Enlightened Bureaucrat""; ""Stenbokś Commission""
""The Commissionś Investigation""""The Commissionś Conclusions""; ""A New Notion of State Service""; ""The Statistical Expeditions""; ""Part Two: The Crisis Unfolds: 1853-55""; ""4: Bibikov's System""; ""Old Belief: A Political Emergency""; ""The Government of The Enlightened Experts""; ""An Alternative Russia""; ""5: The Failure of Legality""; ""The Suppression of The Preobrazhenskoe Cemetery""; ""The Enlightened Experts and The Conclusion of The Beguny Investigation""; ""6: The Crimean War and the Domestic Enemy""; ""Afonii Kochuev""; ""The Crimean War and Orthodox Unity""
An Old Believer Church as A Fifth ColumnThe Suppression of The Rogozhskoe Cemetery -- 7: The Offensive Against the Capitalist-Fanatics -- Religious and Economic Leaders -- The Inroads of Capitalism -- The Merchant Elite -- The Law Against the Old Believer Merchants -- Opposition to The Law -- 8: The End of Bibikov's System -- The Church -- The Narod -- The Autocratic State -- Epilogue -- Conclusion -- Selected Bibliography -- Manuscript and Archival Sources -- Printed Primary Sources -- Printed Secondary Sources -- Index
Summary
This work details an unprecedented attempt by the government of Russia's Tsar Nicholas I (1825-1855) to eradicate what was seen as one of the greatest threats to its political security: the religious dissent of the Old Believers. The history of this religious persecution throws new light on the religious and political identity of the autocratic regime
