Collection of legislative documents on Raskol and religious publications in the personal library of Count P.A. Valuev
This article is devoted to the further study of the book collection of Pyotr Aleksandrovich Valuev (1815-1890), which has been stored in the Scientific Library of Tomsk University since 1885. During the reign of Alexander II from 1861 to 1879. Valuev served as Minister of Internal Affairs and State Property, Chairman of the Committee of Ministers, was a member of the State Council. He is known for his participation in many of the reforms carried out at that time, including the Church one. He deliberately collected thematic collections of publications in his library in accordance with the tasks that he dealt with in his state activities. The subject of the study is a collection of legislative documents on Raskol and individual works of religious themes, considered with the involvement of Valuev's diary entries. Based on the results obtained, it can be concluded that Valuev deeply delved into the essence of issues related to the situation with the Orthodox Church, clergy and schismaticism in Russia, and purposefully formed an appropriate collection of books.