Archbishop Tavricheskiy Guriy (Carpov): prominent church figure and diplomat

Abstract

The basic vectors of diplomatic and church activity of Archbishop Tavricheskiy Guriy (Carpov) are examined in the article. Spite of the published works about activity of prominent hierarchy and missionary, study and comprehension the whole layer of the unexplored archived sources, kept in the funds of the Record office of Republic Crimea needs. The archived materials are contained by vast information about service of Archbishop in the Tavrida diocese, in particular, about his divine worship and build activity. Authors acquaint readers with some of these documents. Thus the special attention is spared correspondence of church figure, to related to the stay of him in Beijing, in the spiritual mission of Russia. The letters over brought in-process are addressed the spiritual father of Archbishop Guriy — Bishop of Saratov Jacob (Vecherkov). They contain unique information about history, culture, political situation in China of epoch of dynasty of Cin, about diplomatic relationships with the countries of the West and Russian empire. The authors of the article come to the conclusion, that letters of Archbishop Guriy, and also his theological works testify to the deep understanding of historical fates of Russia, conformities to law of historical development of our country, civilization prospect of the Russian world. On the whole the diplomatic legacy of Archbishop Guriy opens for a researcher another major prospect is a comprehension of the East question in his Far-Eastern projection. This vector is no less meaningful for the fates of Russia and slavonic world, what primary, especially «osmanskaya» problematika. This circumstance allows to correlate his labours with the legacy of F.M. Dostoevsky, N.Ya. Danilevsky, K.N. Leont’ev and row of other of genius domestic thinkers of the XIX century.