Memorandum of the Olonets governor privy councilor Protasyev to His Excellency mr. Chairman of the Council of ministers, State secretary, chamberlain P.A. Stolypin
Overview and publication of the document, scientific commentary by associate professor of Sretensky Theological Academy archpriest Nikolay Skurat
Keywords:
Olonets and Arkhangelsk provinces, White Sea, Karelia, Finland (Grand Duchy of Finland — VKF), separatism, pan-Finnish propaganda, Lutheran propaganda, zemstvo, Orthodox Karelian Brotherhood (PKB), Karelians, Russians, Finns, schools, colleges, seminaries, parishes, clergy, agriculture, settlers, stanovoy bailiff, Olonets and Murmansk railways, White Sea-Baltic Waterway, canals, Petrozavodsk, Murmansk, OlonetsAbstract
For the first time published (previously only fragmentally quoted) and accompanied by a modern commentary and description, the document addressed by the Olonets Governor N.V. Protasyev in 1908 to the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire and the Minister of Internal Affairs P.A. Stolypin justifies the need for a number of state measures in the North-West of Russia in order to prevent further Lutheran and pan-Finnish propaganda with the ultimate goal of separating the corrupted from Orthodoxy, and the territories of their residence from Russia. At the same time, the document reports on the implementation of a set of local actions in all directions and sets tasks for the long-term development of the province in the context of national economic, economic and religious policy in the north-west of Russia, taking into account the proposed measures.
