Old Russian rite

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Old Russian rite is the Byzantine liturgy of Russian Orthodoxy before the reforms of the 17th century, especially under the Patriarch Nikon . It is important as the current liturgy of (part of) the Russian " Old Believers " ( Russian Orthodox Old Ritualist Church ) and for research into the history of liturgy, because it and its sources testify to Constantinople (= Byzantine) and Middle Eastern traditions that otherwise no longer or only little are documented.

In the 17th century, the liturgical books of the Russian Orthodox Church, among others by Evfimi Tschudowski (1620–1705), based on the model of the “more modern” Greek liturgical books printed in Venice, but not profoundly, changed: Trebnik 1658, Tschinownik 1667, etc. "Old Believers" rejected - among other innovations (with the sign of the cross, church chant) - this book reform and continued to use the previously common divine service regulations and traditional unanimous church chant. After some of the “Old Believers” were reunited with the Russian Orthodox Church, the latter had a separate liturgical book printed for the old ritualists : Jedinowerzy Tschinownik. This print is based on two manuscripts from the 16th century: Moscow Synod. slav. 366 (680) and 367 (909).

literature

  • Old Orthodox Prayer Book , translated and edited by German Ciuba, John Berzins, Pimen Simon, Theodore Jurewicz. Second edition Russian Orth. Church of the Nativity of Christ (Old Rite), Erie, Pa. 1986, ISBN 0-9617062-1-X
  • Inge Kreuz: The Antiphons of the Passion from new manuscripts of the Old Believers and an early Russian print (Studia Slavica Musicologica 11), Kuhn, Berlin 1997. ISBN 3-928864-51-3
  • Ekkehard Kraft: Moscow's Greek Century. Russo-Greek relations and Metabyzantine influence 1619–1694 . Steiner, Stuttgart 1995
  • Paul Meyendorff: Russia, Ritual, and Reform. The Liturgical Reforms of Nikon in the 17th century. St. Vladimir's Seminary Press, Crestwood 1991. ISBN 0-88141-090-X
  • Olga B. Strakhov: The Byzantine Culture in Muscovite Rus'. The Case of Evfimii Chudovskii (1620-1705) . Böhlau, Cologne 1998. ISBN 3-412-06898-5

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