Keyword: «vygoleksin community»

The author for the first time in the scientific literature examines in detail the history of the attempted in the mid-1850s. Olonets Governor Muravyov and Bishop Arkady attempts to establish an Orthodox monastery on the site of the famous Old Believer community in Danilov, reveals all its participants and the reasons for its failure. It turned out that the correspondence on this case lasted more than 10 years. The main reasons for the failure were: 1) the relative liberalization of government policy towards the Old Believers under Alexander II, a vivid illustration of which is the opinion of Senator Dugamel; 2) bickering between the governors Volkov and Arseniev, on the one hand, and the Olonets spiritual consistory and Bishop Arkady, on the other; 3) lack of financial resources for the establishment and maintenance of another Orthodox monastery.