PROVINCIAL MONASTERY OF SOUTH URAL: PROBLEMS OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN THE SECOND HALF OF XIX – THE BEGINNING OF THE XX CENTURIES. (ON THE EXAMPLE OF BIRSKY TRINITY MONASTERY)
Article is devoted to problems of formation and social economic development of a female monastery in the district city of the Ufa province during radical economic and political reforms in the Russian Empire. Questions of property providing a monastery, the relation in monastic society, a role of nuns in public and cultural life of the small city of South Ural are considered. Work is constructed on the basis of the analysis of a significant amount of the rare archival sources for the first time introduced into scientific circulation. The analysis of activity of priors of Trinity Monastery is given: Vitalia, Margarita, Magdalene, Feofaniya. Charity of a female monastery is especially noted: school creation for local girls, the help of nuns starving in 1892, in the period of a terrible drought in South Ural and in the Volga region, fight of sisters of a monastery against cholera epidemic, the organization of a shelter for soldier´s children in days of Russian-Japanese and World War I of wars. The provincial monastery of South Ural was a component of a range of political, economic and cultural life of the small city of the Russian province.