The seventeenth-century Russian hierarch traveling through his diocese: the case of Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov), metropolitan of Siberia

Based on published sources and archival materials, the article examines the journey of a famous church figure, writer and thinker of the second half of the 17th century, the Siberian Metropolitan Ignatius (Rimsky-Korsakov), in the Siberian Diocese in the winter of 1694/1695. During his tour of the cities of Western Siberia, the bishop consecrated newly built churches, preached, communicated with the population, interceded for their needs before the secular authorities, established the veneration for Simeon of Verkhoturye, and arranged church affairs. Vladyka himself perceived his journey as apostolic. Travel was of great importance to the life of the diocese.