Church

Question 1

Catherines aims?

Answer 1

Assimilate all the varied faith , ethnicities, cultures of enormous empire

Question 2

Catherines religion?

Answer 2

convert to orthodoxy
but signs she didnt take it seriously

Question 3

Sings opposing Catherines orthodoxy?

Answer 3

Protestant background formed many of her attitudes
–> disliked elaborate ritual
–> dislike monasticism
–> monks and nuns served no purpose and only out to make money

Question 4

Russian religion 1682?

Answer 4

Orthodoxy
Patriarch = head of church
COnfessional state

Question 5

1652 Patriarch Nikon reforms?

Answer 5

Intro. sermons into services
Re-writing texts
Great Schism
Bring Orthodoxy in line with Greek parent

Question 6

Old Believers in late 1680’s?

Answer 6

20,000 Believers burnt at stake
main group of opposition
fuelled by Streltsy, Bashkir and Astrakhan

Question 7

What did Peter want to do in church reforms?

Answer 7

(1701) Bring church under state control + extended autocracy

Question 8

Economic reforms for church?

Answer 8

(1706) 1/4 revenue for charity
(1707) lost tax privileges
(1710) 1 million in monastic taxation

Question 9

When and what was intro. of Spirtual College?

Answer 9

(1721) renamed Most Holy Directing SYnod
replaced patriarch
Procurator general supervised + reduced to a role of department

Question 10

Peters belief of religion?

Answer 10

own divine right to rule
genuine believer
Jolly COmpany / All Drunken All-Joking Company of Fools of Jesters
–> mocked tradition

Question 11

Short term affects of church reforms?

Answer 11

People went to other religious outlets

Question 12

Long term affects of church reforms?

Answer 12

Strengthened Tsarist regimes
Lasting pschological imapct as they were breaking radically away from traditional past

Question 13

Peter III’s opinion over religion?

Answer 13

Sympathy to Lutheransim got him overthrown
–> Peter I had a low tolerance to other religions e.g. Juadism