Professor Paul Werth and his recent books (photo: A. Mikheeva)
On Tuesday 17 December, a research seminar entitled ‘The Problems of Russian Confessional History’ was held at the historical department of Ural Federal University. The seminar was opened by Professor Paul W. Werth from the University of Nevada, who presented a paper on “The Trajectories of Toleration in the Russian Empire” and his recent monograph The Tsar’s Foreign Faiths: Tolerance and the Fate of Religious Freedom in Imperial Russia.
Dr James White on Orthodox monasteries in the Baltic (photo: A. Mikheeva).
Dr James M. White, founder of balticorthodoxy.com, gave a talk on “Orthodox Monasteries in the Baltic (1881-1917)”. He joined several other scholars presenting their research, including Dr Elena M. Glavatskaia (“The Evolution of the Religious Landscape of the Urals: Sources, Methods, and Results”), Dr Aleksei N. Starostin (“Muslims in the Urals in the Imperial Period”), Dr Anna Mikheeva (“Researching the Musical Culture of Old Believers at the Laboratory of Archaeographical Studies”) and Dr Aleksandr Palkin (“The Periodical Press of a Religious Minority: Edinoverie Journals of the Reform Era”). Papers were given in Russian and English.
Dr Elena M. Glavatskaia on the religious landscape of the Urals (photo: A. Mikheeva).