“Pomorian Answers”: On the Attitude Toward State Authority and Toward Heterodoxy. -Shakhov.
By Mikhail Olegovich Shakhov. Already in the first decades after the Schism, the state authorities and the official Church acted together as persecutors of the zealots of the ancient piety. Old Belief then faced the necessity of defining its attitude toward the state and toward society. It had to formulate its social position. The “Pomorian…