ABSTRACT
Jesuits expelled from Russia. Huguenots invited to settle in Russia. Death of Patriarch Joachim in March, and appointment of Adrian. Jesuits return to Russia. Creation of Peter's 'Most Drunken Synod'. The monk Avraam presents Peter with a written protest against his innovations. He is exiled to a remote monastery. The book copyist G. Talitskii proclaims that Peter is the antichrist. After the death of Patriarch Adrian the Patriarchy falls into abeyance. The Church loses its estates, which are transferred to the Monastery Prikaz under I. A. Musin-Piishkin. Decree on religious toleration for non-Orthodox Chris.;. tians, but forbidding proselytism. Government to abstain from persecuting the Old Believer Vyg Community, in return for it supplying the new Onega arms factories with iron ore. Stefan Iav6rskii's Signs of the Coming of Antichrist and the End of Time published as a refutation of Talitskii. Establishment of an independent Anglican congregation in Moscow. The Orthodox Church anathematizes Mazepa (Nov.). Old Believer group allowed to return to Pskov district from the Baltic. New bishops to be chosen only from a list approved by the Senate. Foundation of the Monastery of Saint Alexander Nevskii in St Petersburg. Persecution of Vetka and Starodiib Old Believers ceases, and they are granted land, in reward for their guerrilla actions against the Swedes. Institution of a new bishops' oath: they cannot increase the number of clergy in their diocese or build
17 Apr. 1721
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