Intellectual heritage of professors from the church history school of Kazan Theological Academy and its role in the development of the Department of Church History at Kazan Imperial University during the 19th and early 20th centuries

This article sketches out the portraits of scholars who represented the church history school of the Kazan Theological Academy during the 19th century and also performed their research outside its walls, at Kazan Imperial University. It is recognized as a separate school of thought because it developed and continued as a certain perspective on historical research. Here, the scholarly contributions of the professors from the Department of Church History at Kazan Imperial University are analyzed, with particular emphasis on their role in the advance of church historiography, as well as in the study of religious movements and cultural aspects of Orthodoxy. The key directions, themes, and problems addressed in their works are explored, and the most notable publications are discussed. Their views and methodological approaches to church history are summarized.

1. Nechkina M.V. A.P. Shchapov v gody revolyutsionnoi situatsii. Pis’mo k P.P. Vyazemskomu ot 8 oktyabrya 1861 g. Revolyutsionnye demokraty. Novye materialy [A.P. Shchapov in the Revolutionary Years. A Letter to P.P. Vyazemsky dated October 8, 1861. The Revolutionary Democrats. New Materials]. Moscow, Izd. Akad. Nauk SSSR, 1959, pp. 645–668. (In Russian)

2. Zalivalova L.N., Lebedeva G.E. From the history of Russian church historiography. F.A. Kurganov (1844–1920). In: Istoricheskaya mysl’ v Vizantii i na srednevekovom Zapade [‎Historical Thought in the Byzantine Empire and the Medieval West]. Ivanovo, IvGU, 1998, pp. 181–204. (In Russian)

3. Boyarshinov V.G. Dixi et animam levavi. V.A. Ignat’ev i ego vospominaniya [Dixi et animam levavi. V.A. Ignatiev and His Memoirs]. Moscow, Pero, 2018. 2000 p. (In Russian)

4. Lebedeva G.E. Russian church historians on the “symphony of the church and state” in the Byzantine Empire. Leningradskii Yuridicheskii Zhurnal, 2008, no. 4, pp. 107–117. (In Russian)

5. Lebedeva G.E. A forgotten chapter in the history of Russian Byzantine studies. Vestnik SPbGU, 2000, ser. 2, no. 1, pp. 3–13. (In Russian)

6. Teplova V.A. Konstantin Vasilyevich Kharlampovich (1870–1932): A historian’s life at the turn of epochs. In: “Dolgii XIX vek” v istorii Belarusi i Vostochnoi Yevropy: issledovaniya po Novoi i Noveishei istorii [The “Long 19th Century” in the History of Belarus and Eastern Europe: Studies in Modern and Contemporary History]. Vol. 5. Marzalyuk I.A. et al. (Eds.). Minsk, RIVSh, 2021, pp. 102–121. (In Russian)

7. Bednov V.A. K.V. Kharlampovich [K.V. Kharlampovich]. Warsaw, Elpis, 1933. 18 p. (In Russian)

8. Leont’ev A.P. N.V. Nikolsky as the founder of Chuvash-language media. Vestnik Chuvashskogo Universiteta, 2012, no. 1, pp. 37–40. (In Russian)

9. Dimitriev V.D. Nikolay Vasilyevich Nikolsky: An essay on life and work. In: Voprosy istoriografii istoriko-etnograficheskogo izucheniya Chuvashii [Historiographical Issues in the Historical and Ethnographic Study of Chuvashia]. Cheboksary, NIIYaLi Ekon., 1981, pp. 109–113. (In Russian)

10. Dimitriev V.D. Nikol’skii – uchenyi, pedagog, obshchestvennyi deyatel’ [Nikolsky as a Scholar, Educator, and Public Figure]. Cheboksary, Izd. Chuv. Univ., 2002. 104 p. (In Russian)

11. Leont’eva V.A. On the ethnographic views of N.V. Nikolsky. In: Istoricheskii sbornik [Historical Collection]. Vol. 31. Cheboksary, Chuvashknigoizdat, 1966, pp. 310–320. (In Russian)

12. Bazhanov V.A. Vladimir Kerensky: His life and academic career. Veche, 2003, vol. 14, pp. 88–93. (In Russian)