| FT-270065-20 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Scott M. Kenworthy | Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin and the Orthodox Church in Revolutionary Russia | 5/20/2020 - 7/19/2020 | $6,000.00 | Scott | M. | Kenworthy | | | | Miami University | Oxford | OH | 45056-1846 | USA | 2020 | Russian History | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 6000 | 0 | 6000 | 0 | A biography of Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin (1865-1925), head of the Orthodox Church during the Russian Revolution.
This project will be the first complete biography of Patriarch Tikhon Bellavin (1865-1925), who became head of the Orthodox Church in the midst of the Russian Revolution and played a decisive role in guiding the Church in the face of a militantly hostile atheist regime. Based on extensive new primary sources, it follows his career in the Russian Empire and in North America before 1917, which played a formative role on Tikhon as a leader, as well as his role as head of the church from 1917 onward. Although the Soviet authorities labeled him a counter-revolutionary and repeatedly arrested him, Tikhon sought to defend the Church against the Bolsheviks’ assaults against it while at the same time was open to negotiation in a way that prepared the church for surviving in the hostile environment. |