The Russian legislation of middle ХІХ - the beginnings of the XX century as the source on history of daily occurrence of orthodox parish clergy
The article is devoted to description of the Russian church-civil legislation in the middle of the ХІХ - beginning of the ХХ сenturies as one of sources for research of problem of the Orthodox parish clergy everyday life. The author gives a brief characterization of the existing in the Russian Empire the complex legislative materials and notes that legislation in the area of the Church was not fully codified and legislative acts was located in different vaults, collections and volumes. This made it difficult practical work with documents, and led to the emergence of a number of special editions, the purpose of which was to unify Church and civil materials regarding the legal status of the Russian Orthodox Church, the structure of the Church, control systems, social and economic status of priests and clergymen and a number of other issues. The purpose of this article identified the analysis of the above mentioned complex laws and regulations and the identifying information necessary to recreate the daily life of the Orthodox parish clergy in the Russian Empire of second half XIX - beginning XX centuries. On the basis of the conducted research the author concludes that there existed in the Russian Empire legislation concerning the clergy is quite informative. Defining the point of view of the Russian state in place of the parish clergy in society, the social status of the clergy and members of their families, on their rights and duties, material aspects of existence and activity, denoting moral precepts for the priests and clerks from the diocesan authorities, the author proposes as a next step in the study of the problems of everyday life of the clergy, the analysis of practical implementation of the above legislative requirements in the everyday life of the rural parish priest