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Walking the first mile of the Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, the visitor is struck by the sight of the Dutch, Finnish, Swedish, German, Armenian Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, and Roman Catholic churches. These buildings reflect the religious, cultural, and social diversity that has been characteristic of the city since Tsar Peter the Great invited thousands of foreigners from all over Western Europe to build this settlement at the estuary of the Neva River. On the occasion of the third centenary of St. Petersburg (2003), historians and archivists from Russia as well as other European countries convened to study the history of the city’s foreign churches in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The resulting studies, published here, offer fascinating insights into the almost forgotten history of those churches and show how substantially they contributed to the religious, cultural, social, and economic history of St. Petersburg.
Contributors include: Archpriest V. Fedorov, M. Fundaminski, P.N. Holtrop, B. Jangfeldt, E.E. Knyazeva, N.S. Krylov, T. Mägi, A. Must, E. Norberg, P.M. Peucker, K. Rundell, V.M. Shishkin, C.H. Slechte, A.R. Sokolov, Th.J.S. van Staalduine, T.I. Tatsenko, J.W. Veluwenkamp, and M.V. Shkarovskii.
Contributors include: Archpriest V. Fedorov, M. Fundaminski, P.N. Holtrop, B. Jangfeldt, E.E. Knyazeva, N.S. Krylov, T. Mägi, A. Must, E. Norberg, P.M. Peucker, K. Rundell, V.M. Shishkin, C.H. Slechte, A.R. Sokolov, Th.J.S. van Staalduine, T.I. Tatsenko, J.W. Veluwenkamp, and M.V. Shkarovskii.
Price: $179.00
Pages: 226
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Brill's Series in Church History
Publication Date:
01 November 2007
ISBN: 9789004162600
Format: Hardcover
"Never before has there been a study of the Dutch, Swedish, Anglican, Moravian, Estonian, Roman Catholic and Uniate Churches of St. Petersburg. [...] "Now, at last, the story can be told of a unique chapter in ecumenical history". Michael Bordeaux, Keston Institute, Oxford. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 60, No. 3 (July 2009).
Pieter N. Holtrop holds a doctorate in Church History (VU University Amsterdam, 1975) and is currently Professor of Religious Studies at Södertörn Högskola in Stockholm. He has published extensively on mission history in Indonesia and the history of the Reformed Dutch Church in St. Petersburg, 1703-1917.
C. Hendrik Slechte studied history at the University of Utrecht and is a free-lance writer. In 2002 he organized the exhibition ‘The Dutch Church in St. Petersburg’ in the building of the former Dutch Church at 20 Nevsky Prospekt. In 2003 he was co-organizer of the conference ‘The History of Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and Their Archives, 1703-1927’.
C. Hendrik Slechte studied history at the University of Utrecht and is a free-lance writer. In 2002 he organized the exhibition ‘The Dutch Church in St. Petersburg’ in the building of the former Dutch Church at 20 Nevsky Prospekt. In 2003 he was co-organizer of the conference ‘The History of Foreign Churches in St. Petersburg and Their Archives, 1703-1927’.