The Muscovite widowed clergy and the Russian Church reforms of 1666-1667

Slavonic and East European Review

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 459-478

  Coulter, Debra ^a  

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19. For a lucid discussion of itinerant clergy who became dissenters, read G. B. Michels, At War with the Church: Religious Dissent in Seventeenth-Century Russia, Stanford, 2000, chapter 5.
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33. In such cases the entry usually reads 'and for his donation, he will be tonsured when God so leads him'. 'Vkladnaia kniga', in ChOIDR, 1898, bk. 1, pp. 19, 24, 29, 37, 42.
34. Russian Private Law; Iushkov, pp. 95-97.
35. Also tonsured at Trinity-St Sergius were archpriests Nikita Vasilevich II and Ivan Lazarev. Archpriest Merkurii Gavrilovich (1685-92) was tonsured, but possibly elsewhere. RIB, 14, no. 44;