On the Issue of Teaching the Law of God Under the Godless Power (Based on the Fund of Kursk Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal)
The article gives a brief overview of the events that followed the release of the decree “On the Separation of Church from State and School from Church” in the Kursk diocese. The author shows the reaction of clergymen to the decree and describes the attempts to establish spiritual enlightenment and education in the new political conditions. The documents on this issue identified in the fund of the Kursk Provincial Revolutionary Tribunal are being introduced into scientific circulation. For the first time, the investigative cases of priest Ioann Andrievsky, a Kursk delegate of the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church of 1917/18, and the Oboyan priest Pavel Popov, as well as the Fatezh teacher Maria Odrinskaya come to the attention of researchers.