The suppression of “The herald of Zion” journal and its reasons: an important stage of the religious and political struggle in Russia under Alexander I

The article is devoted to the circumstances of the suppression of the journal “The Herald of Zion” and the subsequent fate of its publisher A. F. Labzin, theevents that played a significant role in the struggle of “Orthodox conservatives” and “mystics” in the last years of the reign of Alexander I. On the basis of documents and testimonies of contemporaries, it has been shown that one of the initiators of the suppression of the journal was the spiritual censor Archimandrite Innokenty (Smirnov), whose role was usually not emphasized; the victory of the “Orthodox conservatives? as a whole became possible due to the disunity of the “mystics” party.