Parish Chronicle as a Source for Local History and Regional Church History of the Synodal Period (on the example of the chronicle of the fortress church of the apostles Peter and Paul in Petropavlovsk)

The article is an extended text of the report at the III scientific-practical conference “Empire and the Church”, held on April 14–15, 2022 at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy. The parish chronicle, introduced by decree of the Holy Synod in the second half of the 19th century, is one of the most important documentary sources on regional civil and church life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The chronicle of the parish fortress church of the Apostles Peter and Paul in Petropavlovsk, analyzed in the article, is the only one from the corpus of chronographic documents of the deanery of the city churches of the Petropavlovsk District that was not lost in the postrevolutionary period. The pages of the document display historical facts from the life of the parish from 1848 to 1922, echoing events that have an all-Russian dimension: the construction of railways, natural disasters, the patriotic activity of residents, the establishment of a vicar bishop’s chair, patronage, the beginning of Soviet antireligious persecution, the emergence of a renovationist schism and other The article is based on documents not previously introduced into scientific circulation, stored in the funds of the Central State Archive of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Almaty).