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Photo, Print, Drawing Porog Baĭbalyk (okolo 10 km dliny), zakryvai︠u︡shchiĭ vodnyĭ put' k skitam Verkhov'i︠a︡. Порог Байбалык (около 10 км длины), закрывающий водный путь к скитам Верховья.

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Title

  • Porog Baĭbalyk (okolo 10 km dliny), zakryvai︠u︡shchiĭ vodnyĭ put' k skitam Verkhov'i︠a︡.

Other Title

  • Порог Байбалык (около 10 км длины), закрывающий водный путь к скитам Верховья.

Translated Title

  • Baibalyk Rapids (Approximately Ten Kilometers Long), Barring Access by Water to the Hermitages on the Upper Reaches.

Summary

  • The schismatic monasteries along the headwaters of the Little Yenisey River came into being in February 1917, when one of the splinter groups of the well-known monastery of Father Nifont moved to the Tuva (or Tyva) area, near the Mongolian-Russian border, from the Ural region. The Tuva copy of the Genealogy of the Schismatic Sect, composed by Father Nifont between 1887 and 1890, contains an appendix by Father Palladii, the head of monasteries in Tuva, laying out this succession of 20th-century monastic fathers-superior in Tuva: Nifont, Sergii, Ignatii and Palladii. Father Ignatii died in prison before World War II; shortly thereafter, Father Palladii's brother committed suicide while under arrest by jumping into the frigid rapids of the Little Yenisey. Father Palladii was arrested three times, but he was able to escape (from exile in Krasnoyarsk and then from the camp near Vladivostok where the poet Osip Mandel'shtam is known to have perished). Toward the end of his life, Father Palladii was director of the Tuva monasteries, having gained the consent of the authorities to assume this position by promising that he no longer would object to military service for Old Believers. Father Palladii was a skilled transcriber and binder of manuscripts and early printed books who owned a large library of these materials. In 1966 he acquainted Novosibirsk archeographers with previously unknown and unstudied literary works composed in the Urals and Siberia from the 17th to the 20th centuries by Old Believer schismatic writers. The residents of these monasteries refuse to be photographed. They explain this refusal in the following way: upon christening, a person acquires an invisible aura around the head and, after death, this aura serves as a pass into heaven; the aura is diminished each time the person sins, and it is further weakened by photography. Outside monasteries, however, this prohibition is not enforced nearly as strictly, even in the families of spiritual teachers. The image presented here is from the collection "Photographs from Archeographic Expeditions to the Schismatic Monasteries on the Upper Little Yenisey River (Tuva, 1966-75)" held by the Archeographic and Source Study Section of the Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia. It was digitized for the Meeting of Frontiers digital library project in the early 2000s. World Digital Library.

Created / Published

  • Tuva : [publisher not identified], 1966-1975.

Headings

  • -  staroobri︠a︡dt︠s︡y
  • -  arkheografii︠a︡
  • -  ėkspedit︠s︡ii︠a︡
  • -  t︠s︡erkov'
  • -  skit
  • -  Tuva
  • -  Verkhniĭ Eniseĭ
  • -  Christians
  • -  Description and travel
  • -  Landscape
  • -  Monastic and religious life
  • -  Mountains
  • -  Old Believers
  • -  Rivers
  • -  Yenisey River (Russia)
  • -  Russian Federation
  • -  Tyva, Respublika [Tuva]
  • -  старообрядцы
  • -  археография
  • -  экспедиция
  • -  церковь
  • -  скит
  • -  Тува
  • -  Верхний Енисей

Notes

  • -  Raznye semeĭnye klany zhiteleĭ sela pokrovitel'stvui︠u︡t raznym skitam.
  • -  Original image at: Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences
  • -  Разные семейные кланы жителей села покровительствуют разным скитам.

Medium

  • 1 slide : color ; 3.5 x 2.3 cm.

Source Collection

  • Photographs from Archeographic Expeditions to the Schismatic Monasteries on the Upper Malyi Enisei River (Tuva, 1966-75)

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2018685442

Online Format

  • image

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Porog Baĭbalyk okolo 10 km dliny, zakryvai︠u︡shchiĭ vodnyĭ put' k skitam Verkhov'i︠a︡. Russian Federation Respublika Tuva Tyva, 1966. [Tuva: Publisher Not Identified, to 1975] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2018685442/.

APA citation style:

(1966) Porog Baĭbalyk okolo 10 km dliny, zakryvai︠u︡shchiĭ vodnyĭ put' k skitam Verkhov'i︠a︡. Russian Federation Respublika Tuva Tyva, 1966. [Tuva: Publisher Not Identified, to 1975] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2018685442/.

MLA citation style:

Porog Baĭbalyk okolo 10 km dliny, zakryvai︠u︡shchiĭ vodnyĭ put' k skitam Verkhov'i︠a︡. [Tuva: Publisher Not Identified, to 1975] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2018685442/>.