Books, Articles, and E-resources

Within this section, we provide a select list of works on Orthodoxy in the Baltic region in English, Russian, Estonian, and Latvian.

English

A. Bertash, “Architecture of Orthodox Churches in Daugavpils in the Context of Church Building in the Russian Empire of the Second Half of the 19th– the Beginning of the 20th Century” in Daugavpils Universitātes 59. starptautiskās zinātniskās konferences rakstu krājums = Proceedings of the 59th International Scientific Conference of Daugavpils University (Daugavpils: Daugavpils Universitāte akadēmiskais apgāds “Saule”, 2017), pp. 49–56.

A.Bertash, “Construction and Architecture of Orthodox Temples at Estland Province in the Reign of the Emperors Nicholas I and Alexander II”, Texts. Art and Literature Scientific and Analytical Journal, no. 4 (2017), pp. 25–33.

A. Bertash, “Šerwinskij” in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL). Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Band 103 (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019), pp. 165-166.

A. Bertash, “Sokolov, Nikolaj Matveevič’ in Allgemeines Künstlerlexikon (AKL). Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Band 104 (Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019), p. 460.

J. Engelhardt, Singing the Right Way: Orthodox Christians and Secular Enchantment in Estonia (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).

C. Gibson and I. Paert, “Apostasy in the Baltic Provinces: Religious and National Indifference in Imperial Russia”, Past & Present, vol. 255(1) (2022), pp. 233−278.

R. F. Goeckel, Soviet Religious Policy in Estonia and Latvia. Playing Harmony in the Singing Revolution (Bloomington, Indiana University Press. 2018).

M. R. Hatlie, “Crisis and Mass Conversion: Russian Orthodox Missions in Livonia, 1841-1917” in I. Keul, ed., Religion, Ethnie, Nation und die Aushandlung von Identitaten: regionale Religions-geschichte in Ostmittel- und Sudosteuropa (Berlin, 2005).

I. Paert and T. Schvak, “Orthodox Education in the Baltic Provinces of Imperial Russia and Independent Estonia from 1840s till 1941”, Quaestio Rossica, no. 3 (2014), pp. 142-158. Available at: https://qr.urfu.ru/ojs/index.php/qr/article/view/066/3024

I. Paert, “The Russian Imperial Practices of Language and Religion in the Classroom in the Baltic Provinces: The Case of the Orthodox Schools in Livland (1880-1914)”, Procedia: Social and Behavioral Sciences, 236 (2016), 362-367. Available at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S187704281631686X

I. Paert, “Monasticism in the Soviet Borderlands: a Russian Orthodox Convent in Estonia, 1945-52” in O. Mertelsmann, ed., The Baltic States under Stalinist Rule (Bohlau Verlag: Koln, 2016), pp. 209-225.

I. Paert, “Martyrdom, Massacre Narratives and Entangled Memory: The Commemoration of the Orthodox Victims of the Bolshevik Terror in Inter-War Estonia, 1919 – 1939”, History and Memory, vol. 34(1) (2022), pp. 3-34.

I. Paert, “Conciliarity in the Borderlands: The Riga Orthodox Council (Sobor) of 1905 and the Church Reform Movement in Imperial Russia”, The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, vol. 73(3) (2022), pp. 572−594.

J. Plaat and A. Maasik, Õigeusu kirikud, kloostrid ja kabelid Eestis/Pravoslavnye tserkvi, monastyri i chasovni v Ėstonii/Orthodox churches, convents and chapels in Estonia (Eesti Kunstiakadeemia: Tallinn, 2011). Photographs with Estonian, Russian, and English text.

A. Polunov, “The Orthodox Church in the Baltic Region and the Policies of Alexander III’s Government”, Russian Studies in History, vol. 39, no. 4 (2001), pp. 66-76. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/3467146/The_Orthodox_Church_in_the_Baltic_Region_and_the_Policies_of_Alexander_III_s_Government_Russian_Studies_in_History_-_New_York._Spring_2001._Vol.39_No.4

S. Rimestad, The Challenges of Modernity to the Orthodox Church in Estonia and Latvia (1917-1940) (Peter Lang; Frankfurt am Main, 2012).

S. Rimestad, “Modernising Church Life: The Case of the Interwar Orthodox Churches in Estonia and Latvia”, Religion, State and Society, 40, 3:4 (2012), pp. 301-315.

D. C. Ryan, “Religious Conversion and the Problem of Commitment in Livland Province, 1850s-1860s”, Ajalooline Ajakiri, 3-4 (121/122) (2007), pp. 369-392. Available at: https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/EAA/article/view/320

D. C. Ryan, “Rumor, Belief, and Contestation amid the Conversion Movement to Orthodoxy in Northern Livonia”, Folklore, vol. 28 (2008), pp. 8-23.

D. C. Ryan, The Tsar’s Faith: Conversion, Religious Politics, and Peasant Protest in Imperial Russia’s Baltic Periphery, 1845-1870s (PhD diss.: University of California, 2008) 

A. Sõtšov, “Achievement of and Fight for Independence of the Orthodox Church of Estonia in 1940–1945” in G. D. Papathomas and M. H. Palli, eds., The Autonomous Orthodox Church of Estonia (University of Thessaloniki Editions: Thessaloniki, 2002), pp 285–305. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/16654933/Achivement_of_and_Fight_for_Independence_of_the_Orthodox_Church_of_Estonia_in_1940_1945_The_Autonomous_Orthodox_Church_of_Estonia_eds_Grigorios_D_Papathomas_and_Mattias_H_Palli_University_of_Thessaloniki_Editions_%C3%89pektasis_Thessaloniki_2002_Pp_285_305

A. Sõtšov (2009), “Ecumenical Relations of the Orthodox Church: From WW II to 1989” in R. Altnurme, ed., History of Estonian Ecumenism (Tartu/Tallinn: Tartu Ülikool/Eesti Kirikute Nõukogu, 2009), pp. 154-170.

E. C. Thaden, Russification and the Baltic Provinces and Finland, 1855-1914 (Princeton University Press: Princeton, 2014).

T. O. Tøllefsen and J. M.White, “Navigating an Orthodox Conversion: Community, Environment, and Religion on the Island of Ruhnu, 1866-7”, Scandinavian Journal of History, no. 46(5) (2021), pp. 642-664.

K. Weber, Religion and Law in the Russian Empire: Lutheran Pastors on Trial, 1860-1917 (PhD diss.: New York University, 2013).

J. M. White, “Russian Orthodox Monasticism in Riga Diocese, 1881-1917”, Canadian Slavonic Papers, no. 62(3-4) (2020), pp. 373-398.

J. M. White, “Changing Tides of Nation and Confession: Building Orthodoxy and Empire on the Island of Vormsi, 1873–1905”, Ab Imperio, no. 2 (2022), 147-177.

Home page of the Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (also available in Russian and Estonian): http://www.orthodox.ee

The old version of the website of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church:
http://www.orthodoxa.org/GB/accueil_GB.htm

Russian

Aleksii II (Moskva patriarh), Pravoslavie v Estonii (Moscow, 1999).

N. V. Balashov and S. L. Kravets (eds.), Pravoslavie v Estonii. Issledovaniia i dokumenty v dvukh tomakh (Moscow, 2010).

A. Bertash, “‘Rizhskaya shkola’ v khramostroitel'stve Pribaltiiskogo kraya 1870-kh gg.”, Pravoslavie v Baltii, № 4 (13) (2016), pp. 9–32.

A. Bertash, “V. I. Lunskii – rizhskii eparkhial'nyj arkhitektor”, Pravoslavie v Baltii, № 5 (14) (2016), pp. 19–32.

A. Bertash, “Perekhod v Pravoslavie latyshskikh i estonskikh krest'ian v 1840-e gg. i khramostroitel'stvo v Liflyandskoi gubernii v seredine 1840-h–1850-e gg.” in Entsiklopedicheskaya praktika: materialy i issledovaniya. Sbornik nauchnykh statei i dokumentov. Vyp. 5 (St Petersburg: Skriptorium, 2017), pp. 25–46.

A. Bertash, “Khramostroitel'stvo na territorii sovremennyh Latvii i Estonii v 1860-kh gg.” in Entsiklopedicheskaia praktika: materialy i issledovaniia. Sbornik nauchnykh statei i dokumentov. Vyp. 6 (St Petersburg: Skriptorium, 2017), pp. 18–34.

A. Bertash, “‘Tserkovno-stroitel'naya operatsiia’: provintsial'noe tserkovnoe stroitel'stvo kontsa 1860-1870-kh gg. na territorii Latvii i Estonii” in I. Paert, ed., Pravoslavie v Pribaltike: religiya, politika, obrazovanie. 1840-e – 1930-e gg (Tartu: Izdatel'stvo Tartuskogo universiteta, 2018), pp. 41–93.

N. Demina, Rizhskii Sviato-Troitse-Sergieev zhenskii monastyr’ (Pētergalis: Riia, 2002).

G. Freeze, “Religioznaia politika Rossiiskoi imperii v Pribaltike”, Vestnik Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta, vol. 72, no. 4, (2017), pp. 777-806. Available at: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/religioznaya-politika-rossiyskoy-imperii-v-pribaltike

A. V. Gavrilin, Ocherki Rizhskoi eparkhii. 19 vek (Filokalia: Riia, 1999).

A. V. Gavrilin, “Rizhskii period sluzheniia sviashchennoispovednika mitropolita Agafangela”, Vestnik PSTGU, vyp. 1 (2005), pp. 47-61. Available at: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/n/rizhskiy-period-sluzheniya-svyaschennoispovednika-mitropolita-agafangela

A. V. Gavrilin, “Pochemu ne byl zakryt Rizhskii Sviato-Troitskii Sergiev monastyr?”, Bogoslovskii sbornik PSTBI, vyp. 11 (2003), pp. 394-407. Available at: http://pstgu.ru/download/1237467511.gavrilin.pdf

Istoriia v pis’makh iz arkhiva sviashchennomuchenika arkhiepiskopa Rizhskogo Ioanna (Pommera) (2 vols. Izdatel’stvo Bulat: Tver, 2015).

V. I. Musaev, Pravoslavie v Pribaltike v 1890-1930-e (Izdatel’stvo Politekhnicheskogo universiteta: St Petersburg, 2018).

M. I. Nepochatova, “Tserkovno-gosudarstvennye otnosheniia v Estonii v 1944-1853 gg.”, Vestnik PSTGU, vyp. 5(60) (2014), pp. 18-33.

M. I. Nepochatova, “K istorii Piukhtitskogo Uspenskogo zhenskogo monastyria v 1944-1962 gg. ”, Vestnik PSTGU, vyp. 2 (69) (2016), pp. 66-79. Available at: http://pstgu.ru/download/1461247154.5_Nepochatova_66-79.pdf

I. Paert (ed.). Pravoslavie v Pribaltike: Religiia, politika, obrazovanie, 1840-e – 1930-e gg. (Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus: Tartu, 2018).

I. V. Petrov, Pravoslavnaia Baltiia, 1939-1952 gg.: period voin, repressii i mezhnatsional’nykh protivorechii (Bumazhnye knigi: St Petersburg, 2016).

Piukhtitskaia obitel’ i ee prokovitel’ sviatoi pravednyi Ioann Kronshtadtskii (Piukhtitskii Uspenskii stavropigal’nyi zhenskii monastyr’: Kuremäe, 2008). Available at: https://www.puhtitsa.ee/docs/puhtitsa-i-ioann-kronshtadtsky.pdf

Pravoslavie v Baltii. Journal (2012-). Available at: https://search.rsl.ru/ru/search#ef=1&af=1&q=%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BE%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B5%20%D0%B2%20%D0%91%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%82%D0%B8%D0%B8

G. Sedova (nun Efrosiniia), Rizhskaia eparkhiia 1944-1964. Iz istorii pravoslaviia (Daugavpils Universitates Akademiskaisapgards “Saule”: Daugavpils, 2020).

S. Tsoia, “Istoriografiia istorii Pravoslaviia v Latvii (kratkii ocherk)”, Zhurnal rossiiskikh i vostochnoevropeiskikh istoricheskikh issledovanii, no. 4 (2017), pp. 162-199. Available at: https://cyberleninka.ru/article/v/istoriografiya-istorii-pravoslaviya-v-latvii-kratkiy-ocherk

D. M. Uait, “Konfessional'nyi konflikt v pribaltiiskikh guberniyakh rossiiskoi imperii: shvedskogovoryashchee naselenie ostrova Rukhnu mezhdu lyuteranstvom i pravoslaviem (1866–1867),” in D. M. Uait, ed., Kontseptsii konflikta i soglasiya v rossiiskoi obshchestvennoi mysli i praktike (XVIII–XX vv.) (Ekaterinburg: Izdatel'stvo Ural'skogo universiteta, 2020), pp. 103-127.

Pühtitsa convent’s website: https://www.puhtitsa.ee/ 

Articles on various aspects of Latvian Orthodoxy and Old Belief: https://www.russkije.lv/ru/pub/

Estonian Old Believers: http://www.starover.ee/ru/

Estonian

H. Kruus, Talurahva käärimine Lõuna-Eestis XIX sajandi 40-ndail aastail (Tartu: Eesti Kirjanduse Seltsi kirjastus, 1930).

I. Pärt, “Tallinna vikaarpiiskopkonna taastamine 1917. aastal ja piiskopi valimine kui 'kirikurevolutsiooni' ilming Riia piiskopkonnas”, Ajalooline Ajakiri, 1(167) (2019), pp. 69−118.

A. Raudsepp, Riia Vaimulik Seminar 1846-1918 (Tartu: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum, 1998).

A. Raudsepp, “Piiskop Platoni roll õigeusuliste eestlaste vaimse vastupanu juhtimisel 1918. aasta Saksa okupatsiooni ajal”, Ajalooline Ajakiri, no. 1-2 (2021), pp. 31−52.

L. Rebane, “Usuvahetuslik liikumine Läänemaal aa. 1883-1885”, Ajalooline Ajakiri, nos. 2, 3, and 4 (1933).

T. Schvak, “Õigeusu vaimulikkonna ettevalmistamisest Eesti Vabariigis 1918–1940”, Usuteaduslik Ajakiri (2011), pp. 70−86.

T. Schvak, Õigeusk Võrtsjärve kallastel: Rannu Issanda Jeruusalemma Minemise koguduse ja kiriku lugu (Tallinn: MTÜ Sacrarius, 2013).

T. Schvak, “Õigeusu kirik Narvas ja selle konflikt Eesti riigiga aastatel 1918–1920” in I. Kopõtin, Vabadussõja lõpp Narvas 1920 (Tartu: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, 2021), pp.186-201

A. Sõtšov, “Eesti apostlik-õigeusu pagulaskiriku vaimulike kirjavahetus kodumaaga ja selle kajastumine EAÕK häälekandjas Jumala Abiga 1950. aastatel”, Acta Historica Tallinnensia, no. 10 (2006), pp. 178-192. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/78766558/Eesti_apostlik_%C3%B5igeusu_pagulaskiriku_vaimulike_kirjavahetus_kodumaaga_ja_selle_kajastumine_EA%C3%95K_h%C3%A4%C3%A4lekandjas_Jumala_Abiga_1950_aastatel

A. Sõtšov, “Eesti õigeusu pagulaskiriku ja Moskva patriarhaadi Eesti piiskopkonna suhted aastail 1958–1966”, Acta Historica Tallinnensia, no. 10 (2006), pp. 193–211A.

A. Sõtšov, Eesti õigeusu piiskopkonna halduskorraldus ja vaimulikkond aastail 1945–1953 (MA thesis, University of Tartu, 2004). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/83555084/Administration_and_clergy_of_the_Estonian_orthodox_eparchy_1945_1953

A. Sõtšov, “Eesti Õigeusu koguduste likvideerimine Nikita Hruštšovi ajal aastail 1954–64”, Acta Historica Tallinnensia, no. 11 (2007), pp. 115–130.

A. Sõtšov, (2008) Eesti õigeusu piiskopkond nõukogude religioonipoliitika mõjuväljas 1954–1964 (PhD thesis, University of Tartu, 2008). Available at: https://www.academia.edu/83555078/Eesti_%C3%B5igeusu_piiskopkond_N%C3%B5ukogude_religioonipoliitika_m%C3%B5juv%C3%A4ljas_1954_1964

A. Sõtšov, “Õigeusu kogukondlikkusest Eestis Nõukogude ajal”, Usk ja Elu, no. 20 (2022), pp. 25-83. Available at: https://www.academia.edu/87056157/%C3%95igeusu_kogukondlikkusest_Eestis_N%C3%B5ukogude_ajal

Website of the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (also available in French): http://www.eoc.ee

Latvian

D. Ērglis, “Pareizticība Ziemeļkurzemē: Kolkasraga draudze (1918–1934)”, Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 1(106) (2018), pp. 93–142.

D. Ērglis, “Pareizticība Ziemeļkurzemē: Kolkasraga draudze un tās priesteri (1934–1940)”, Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 1(109) (2019), pp. 93–140.

D. Ērglis, “Pareizticība Ziemeļkurzemē: Dundagas draudze (1918-1936)”, Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 2(114) (2021), pp. 85–104.

I. Pauloviča, “Mālpils Dievmātes patvēruma (Pokrova) draudze 19. gads-imta otrajā pusē un 20. gadsimta sākumā”, Latvijas Vēstures Institūta Žurnāls, 1(115) (2022), pp. 28-57.

Website of the Latvian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (also available in Russian): http://www.pareizticiba.lv/