The Orthodox Periodical and Public Opinion in Modern Russia

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25770262
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: History of Europe and America
• Research Institution: Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Principal Investigator: Tatsumi Yukiko 東京外国語大学, 大学院総合国際学研究院, 講師 (90643255)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ロシア史 / 近代 / 正教 / メディア / 出版

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study aimed to reveal how the religious press as well as the secular press contributed to the formation of public opinion in late nineteenth-century Russia, by featuring the works of Alexander Popovitsky who left the clergy estate and became a journalist in the secular publishing world. 'Russkii Palomnik' (Russian Pilgrim), the first Orthodox weekly in Russia founded by Popovitsky, and his strong connection with the Soikin Company, one of the representative secular publishers, would indicate that the traditional values and faith still had a great effect on public opinion even in the cities after the Great Reforms, to which the previous studies did not pay enough attention as they tended to focus on the intelligentsia and their secular publishing activity.

Free Research Field

歴史学