DOCUMENTS ON THE HISTORY OF THE OBNOVLENTSY (RENEWAL) MOVEMENT IN THE ARCHIVE OF V. N. BENESHEVICH
The article gives a description of documents of the personal collection of Byz-antinist and historian of the canonic law V. N. Beneshevich in the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Beneshevich took active part in the religious life of the country in the first years after the revolution 1917. Beside documents on the problem of autocephaly of the Georgian Church, the collection contains materials on the parochial life of Petrograd, and on the initial years of activity of the Obnovlentsy. Among the documents on the Ob-novlentsy (Renewal) movement, the most noteworthy are hand-typed copies of letters by Archpriest Alexander Boyarsky to Archpriest A. I. Vvedensky (1922), and a letter from an unknown person about the Obnovlentsy Movement (1923). These letters are involved into the research field for the first time.