Alexey Beglov
Biographic Data
| ID | 4432233 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alexey Beglov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alexey |
| FAMILY NAME | Beglov |
| SIGNATURE | BEGLOV A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of World History |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8656-1615 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
On the Eve of Great Trials. An American Catholic Priest on the Situation in the USSR and the International Situation on the Eve and at the Beginning of the Second World War
This article examines the correspondence of the American Assumptionist priest Father Leopold Braun, rector of the Moscow parish of Saint Louis in 1939—1940, which is a valuable historical source. Being an American citizen closely connected with the diplomatic circles of the United States and France, Braun possessed a unique perspective for observation. His letters to the order's leadership and Bishop Pius Neve shed light on four key thematic bloc…
A Catholic Priest in the Diplomatic Polygon
This article introduces one of Fr Leopold Braun’s memoranda concerning his tenure as rector of the Catholic parish in Moscow (1934–1945) into scholarly circulation. The analysis focuses on the Second World War period and the broader diplomatic interactions between the USSR, the United States, and France. Braun, as a representative of the Holy See in Soviet Russia, occupied a unique position within this complex diplomatic polygon - a multifaceted …
“For Us, He Became a Bright Ray of Hope.” The Tradition of Writing Letters to the Roman Pontiff by the Soviet Believers
The article explores the history of attempts initiated by believers within the Soviet Union to establish communication with Western Christians through letters or appeals addressed to the Pope. The authors identify and trace the tradition of appeals to the Roman Pontiff, which started at the beginning of the Soviet period, during the Civil War, and ceased existence during perestroika. Orthodox hierarchs and priests, as well as ordinary believers, …
Relying on Your Great Influence Throughout the World”
This article introduces into scholarly circulation appeals to Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow and All Rus' from various religious groups in the Middle East between 1947 and 1950, and analyzes the phenomenon of the Moscow Patriarch being perceived as a potential protector in regional conflicts. In addition to the letter from an individual calling himself the “Chief Rabbi of Palestine”, N. Wachtfogel (1948), the article examines a collective appeal fro…
Opponents and Mediators. Metropolitan Iliya (Karam) and the Church-Diplomatic Struggle for Influence in the Middle East in 1945—1947
This article reveals one of the aspects of Russian church-diplomatic contacts in the 1940s. It is about the mediation mission of Metropolitan Iliya (Karam), a hierarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. The idea for this mission emerged during the visit to the Middle East of a Russian church delegation headed by Patriarch Alexy I (Simansky) in May-June 1945. Initially, in late 1945 — early 1946, Iliya’s mission was aimed at reconciling the two pa…
What happened before the “kremlin meeting”? formation of the soviet leadership’s “new deal” policy towards the Russian orthodox church in 1941–1943
In the article, the author examines the formation of the “New Deal” policy towards the Russian Orthodox Church during the initial two years of the Great Patriotic War. From the author’s perspective, the conventional interpretation of the Soviet authorities’ ‘new deal’ policy towards the country’s religious associations entails the rejection of mass repression against believers (with the potential for targeted repression against hierarchs and chur…
The Iron Is Hot, and It’s Time to Strike”
The article presents a singular account from Fr Leopold Braun, the rector of a Catholic parish in Moscow, concerning the efforts of Soviet diplomatic representatives to improve relations between the Holy See and the Soviet Union in the spring of 1942. It is notable that this level of effort on the part of the Soviet side is not reflected in other sources, making the published document an invaluable piece of testimony. However, this raises questio…
Italy, Vatican, Russia. Scientific Path of Evgenia Sergeevna Tokareva. To the 70th Anniversary of Her Birth
The article is devoted to the review of the scientific path of the leading Russian researcher of the history of Italy and the Catholic Church E. S. Tokareva and is timed to her jubilee. The whole scientific biography of the jubilee relates to the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where E. S. Tokareva has been working for 45 years. She began her research activity with the study of the relations between the Catholic…
American Representatives to the USSR and the Fate of Soviet Religious Policy at the Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. From Father Leopold Braun's Correspondence of 1941
In this article, the authors analyse and comment upon four documents from the archives of the Vatican Secretariat of State which reflect the earliest phase of US-Soviet contacts during the Great Patriotic War relating to the question of religious freedom in the USSR. The international reputation of the Soviet Union as a country of deliberate persecution of religion became a domestic political problem for the administration of President Franklin D…
Unknown Episode of Soviet-Greek Contacts in 1945
The publication introduces into scientific circulation a note by G. G. Karpov, Chairman of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the meeting of Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) of Moscow and All Russia with representatives of the Greek political emigration in Egypt in June 1945. The meeting took place during a large-scale visit of a delegation of the Russian Church to the Middle East and Egypt. While the patriarch was in Alexan…
Bibliography of Scientific Works by Evgeniya S. Tokareva
This publication provides a complete list of scientific works by Evgenia Sergeevna Tokareva, Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This publication is timed to the anniversary of E. S. Tokareva and reflects the diversity of the directions of her research and the main stages of her scientific path. The list includes works on the relations between the Catholic Chu…
Religious Life in the USSR and the Allied Policy of 1943
The article considers one of the aspects of the transformation of the religious policy of the Soviet leaders during the Great Patriotic War. In 1941–1943 one of the main addressees of this policy were the allies of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition. The document on which this article is centred reflects the British view of the rapprochement between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Church of England in 1943. It is a report to the Vatican co…
Special Services and Religious Organizations in the Soviet State
In this article the authors formulate generalizing observations on the mechanisms of interaction between the Soviet secret services and religious communities in the USSR during the whole period of its existence. The basis for these generalizations was the research of the past thirty years as well as the materials of the international symposium “Special Services and Religious Organizations in the Soviet State: Collaboration Mechanisms, Survival St…
Parish Experiences. Social Activity of Parish Priests, Parish Charity and the Question of the Revival of the Orthodox Parish in Russia in the Second Half of the 19th Century
The article examines the experiences of two Russian priests, rural and metropolitan, who in the 1860s initiated projects designed to renew the life of their parishes. Both cases were related to social activity: pastors were looking for new opportunities to be useful to their parishioners. A priest from the Ryazan province, John Molchanov, began to give loans to his parishioners who were in a difficult situation. This practice existed in the pre-P…
Church Diplomacy in the Conditions of the Cold War
The article provides an overview of the international activities of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate during the 1970s. The following directions of church international activity are described: 1) Peacekeeping activities, and the transformation of the USSR into a springboard for interreligious efforts to limit the arms race and reduce the nuclear threat. Throughout the 1970s, the USSR positioned itself as a platform for dialog…
The Fate of the Catholic Church of St. Louis of the French in Soviet Moscow
From 1938 to 1992, the Church of St. Louis of the French was the only legally operating Roman Catholic parish church in Moscow. The peculiarity of the parish was that its core membership and its “executive bodies” comprised foreign nationals and representatives of the diplomatic corps, primarily of France and the United States. In the second half of the 1940s, amid rising tensions with the West, the Soviet authorities subjected the community of S…
Catholic Liturgical Practices in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s
This paper examines changes in the liturgical and paraliturgical practices of Roman Catholics in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. Nine documents from different archives outside Russia were first used to show changes made at the request of Russian Catholics. These documents deal with a number of disciplinary issues, such as the time for the celebration of Mass, observation of a natural fast before Mass, permission for lay people to bring Holy…
Diocese and parish in the Russian Empire
This article describes financial and bureaucratic relations between the parish and the diocese in the Russian Empire. Throughout the imperial period, the parish clergy were obliged to send their dioceses significant financial contributions and bureaucratic paperwork. Compared to the pre-Petrine epoch, there was a significant expansion of the diocese’s powers over the parish during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author concludes that…
The Trial of the Catholic Clergy in 1923 in the Coverage of the Vatican Envoy in Russia
Prayers Crusade” of 1930 and the Reaction to It in the USSR
USSR, Russian Catholics and Vatican on the Eve of the II World War
Брандайс Университет Соединенные Штаты Америки
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The Trial of the Catholic Clergy in 1923 in the Coverage of the Vatican Envoy in Russia
Prayers Crusade” of 1930 and the Reaction to It in the USSR
USSR, Russian Catholics and Vatican on the Eve of the II World War
Брандайс Университет Соединенные Штаты Америки
Catholic Liturgical Practices in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s
This paper examines changes in the liturgical and paraliturgical practices of Roman Catholics in Soviet Russia in the 1920s and 1930s. Nine documents from different archives outside Russia were first used to show changes made at the request of Russian Catholics. These documents deal with a number of disciplinary issues, such as the time for the celebration of Mass, observation of a natural fast before Mass, permission for lay people to bring Holy…
Diocese and parish in the Russian Empire
This article describes financial and bureaucratic relations between the parish and the diocese in the Russian Empire. Throughout the imperial period, the parish clergy were obliged to send their dioceses significant financial contributions and bureaucratic paperwork. Compared to the pre-Petrine epoch, there was a significant expansion of the diocese’s powers over the parish during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The author concludes that…
Parish Experiences. Social Activity of Parish Priests, Parish Charity and the Question of the Revival of the Orthodox Parish in Russia in the Second Half of the 19th Century
The article examines the experiences of two Russian priests, rural and metropolitan, who in the 1860s initiated projects designed to renew the life of their parishes. Both cases were related to social activity: pastors were looking for new opportunities to be useful to their parishioners. A priest from the Ryazan province, John Molchanov, began to give loans to his parishioners who were in a difficult situation. This practice existed in the pre-P…
Church Diplomacy in the Conditions of the Cold War
The article provides an overview of the international activities of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate during the 1970s. The following directions of church international activity are described: 1) Peacekeeping activities, and the transformation of the USSR into a springboard for interreligious efforts to limit the arms race and reduce the nuclear threat. Throughout the 1970s, the USSR positioned itself as a platform for dialog…
The Fate of the Catholic Church of St. Louis of the French in Soviet Moscow
From 1938 to 1992, the Church of St. Louis of the French was the only legally operating Roman Catholic parish church in Moscow. The peculiarity of the parish was that its core membership and its “executive bodies” comprised foreign nationals and representatives of the diplomatic corps, primarily of France and the United States. In the second half of the 1940s, amid rising tensions with the West, the Soviet authorities subjected the community of S…
Religious Life in the USSR and the Allied Policy of 1943
The article considers one of the aspects of the transformation of the religious policy of the Soviet leaders during the Great Patriotic War. In 1941–1943 one of the main addressees of this policy were the allies of the USSR in the anti-Hitler coalition. The document on which this article is centred reflects the British view of the rapprochement between the Russian Orthodox Church and the Church of England in 1943. It is a report to the Vatican co…
Special Services and Religious Organizations in the Soviet State
In this article the authors formulate generalizing observations on the mechanisms of interaction between the Soviet secret services and religious communities in the USSR during the whole period of its existence. The basis for these generalizations was the research of the past thirty years as well as the materials of the international symposium “Special Services and Religious Organizations in the Soviet State: Collaboration Mechanisms, Survival St…
Italy, Vatican, Russia. Scientific Path of Evgenia Sergeevna Tokareva. To the 70th Anniversary of Her Birth
The article is devoted to the review of the scientific path of the leading Russian researcher of the history of Italy and the Catholic Church E. S. Tokareva and is timed to her jubilee. The whole scientific biography of the jubilee relates to the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, where E. S. Tokareva has been working for 45 years. She began her research activity with the study of the relations between the Catholic…
American Representatives to the USSR and the Fate of Soviet Religious Policy at the Beginning of the Great Patriotic War. From Father Leopold Braun's Correspondence of 1941
In this article, the authors analyse and comment upon four documents from the archives of the Vatican Secretariat of State which reflect the earliest phase of US-Soviet contacts during the Great Patriotic War relating to the question of religious freedom in the USSR. The international reputation of the Soviet Union as a country of deliberate persecution of religion became a domestic political problem for the administration of President Franklin D…
Unknown Episode of Soviet-Greek Contacts in 1945
The publication introduces into scientific circulation a note by G. G. Karpov, Chairman of the Council for the Affairs of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the meeting of Patriarch Alexy (Simansky) of Moscow and All Russia with representatives of the Greek political emigration in Egypt in June 1945. The meeting took place during a large-scale visit of a delegation of the Russian Church to the Middle East and Egypt. While the patriarch was in Alexan…
Bibliography of Scientific Works by Evgeniya S. Tokareva
This publication provides a complete list of scientific works by Evgenia Sergeevna Tokareva, Doctor of Historical Sciences, leading researcher at the Institute of the World History of the Russian Academy of Sciences. This publication is timed to the anniversary of E. S. Tokareva and reflects the diversity of the directions of her research and the main stages of her scientific path. The list includes works on the relations between the Catholic Chu…
Opponents and Mediators. Metropolitan Iliya (Karam) and the Church-Diplomatic Struggle for Influence in the Middle East in 1945—1947
This article reveals one of the aspects of Russian church-diplomatic contacts in the 1940s. It is about the mediation mission of Metropolitan Iliya (Karam), a hierarch of the Antiochian Orthodox Church. The idea for this mission emerged during the visit to the Middle East of a Russian church delegation headed by Patriarch Alexy I (Simansky) in May-June 1945. Initially, in late 1945 — early 1946, Iliya’s mission was aimed at reconciling the two pa…
What happened before the “kremlin meeting”? formation of the soviet leadership’s “new deal” policy towards the Russian orthodox church in 1941–1943
In the article, the author examines the formation of the “New Deal” policy towards the Russian Orthodox Church during the initial two years of the Great Patriotic War. From the author’s perspective, the conventional interpretation of the Soviet authorities’ ‘new deal’ policy towards the country’s religious associations entails the rejection of mass repression against believers (with the potential for targeted repression against hierarchs and chur…
The Iron Is Hot, and It’s Time to Strike”
The article presents a singular account from Fr Leopold Braun, the rector of a Catholic parish in Moscow, concerning the efforts of Soviet diplomatic representatives to improve relations between the Holy See and the Soviet Union in the spring of 1942. It is notable that this level of effort on the part of the Soviet side is not reflected in other sources, making the published document an invaluable piece of testimony. However, this raises questio…
A Catholic Priest in the Diplomatic Polygon
This article introduces one of Fr Leopold Braun’s memoranda concerning his tenure as rector of the Catholic parish in Moscow (1934–1945) into scholarly circulation. The analysis focuses on the Second World War period and the broader diplomatic interactions between the USSR, the United States, and France. Braun, as a representative of the Holy See in Soviet Russia, occupied a unique position within this complex diplomatic polygon - a multifaceted …
“For Us, He Became a Bright Ray of Hope.” The Tradition of Writing Letters to the Roman Pontiff by the Soviet Believers
The article explores the history of attempts initiated by believers within the Soviet Union to establish communication with Western Christians through letters or appeals addressed to the Pope. The authors identify and trace the tradition of appeals to the Roman Pontiff, which started at the beginning of the Soviet period, during the Civil War, and ceased existence during perestroika. Orthodox hierarchs and priests, as well as ordinary believers, …
Relying on Your Great Influence Throughout the World”
This article introduces into scholarly circulation appeals to Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow and All Rus' from various religious groups in the Middle East between 1947 and 1950, and analyzes the phenomenon of the Moscow Patriarch being perceived as a potential protector in regional conflicts. In addition to the letter from an individual calling himself the “Chief Rabbi of Palestine”, N. Wachtfogel (1948), the article examines a collective appeal fro…
On the Eve of Great Trials. An American Catholic Priest on the Situation in the USSR and the International Situation on the Eve and at the Beginning of the Second World War
This article examines the correspondence of the American Assumptionist priest Father Leopold Braun, rector of the Moscow parish of Saint Louis in 1939—1940, which is a valuable historical source. Being an American citizen closely connected with the diplomatic circles of the United States and France, Braun possessed a unique perspective for observation. His letters to the order's leadership and Bishop Pius Neve shed light on four key thematic bloc…
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