The Orthodox Church as an Information Resource of the Russian Empire
Annotation
The article discusses the mechanism of information impact on the masses of the illiterate population of the Russian Empire in the XVIII - early XX centuries, carried out through the structure of the Orthodox Church. The change in value orientations that took place in Russia as a result of the reforms of Peter I required constant information and propaganda support from the government. In conditions when the vast majority of the population was illiterate, the only effective tool for direct social impact on a countrywide scale during the 18th-19th centuries. was the Orthodox Church. On the basis of a comparative study of the texts of church sermons and the Highest manifestos, it is concluded that the explanation of certain state tasks in the form of a panegyric sermon, the reading of the Highest manifestos and decrees in an accessible language for listeners and with an understandable system of images from the pulpit of the church was the most important component of ideological policy. Russian Empire. This policy remained effective until the beginning of the 20th century. As a result of the changes taking place in the value orientations of society at the beginning of the 20th century, the church's information and propaganda impact ceased to correspond to them and lost its former effectiveness.
Keywords
Orthodox Church, Russian Empire, panegyric sermon, Supreme Manifesto
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