Remembrance of the Borki Train Disaster in the Eparchial Part of “Faith and Reason”
In the Russian empire of the 19th century, every important event in the life of the ruling dynasty became newsbreak for various periodicals. On October 17, 1888, all the carriages of the imperial train were wrecked at Borki (Kharkiv province and eparchy). There were 23 victims and 35 badly wounde...
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| description | In the Russian empire of the 19th century, every important event in the
life of the ruling dynasty became newsbreak for various periodicals. On October
17, 1888, all the carriages of the imperial train were wrecked at Borki (Kharkiv
province and eparchy). There were 23 victims and 35 badly wounded in the
disaster, but the emperor Alexander III, his wife and children escaped without
serious injury. In the view of the state religion, this miraculous salvation was
considered to be a divine blessing and was consequently immortalized in an
hermitage near Borki, by charitable institutions, etc. The study of these practices
can help amplify the lore about the politics of remembering and representations
of memory about the sovereign. The case of the Kharkiv region, where the crash
took place is scantily investigated. This work deals with the materials about the
Romanovs’ survival, published in both official and unofficial parts of the main
Orthodox magazine of the Kharkiv eparchy during 1889–1915. The author
studies the contexts of all mentionings about the disaster and concludes that
these publications were connected mainly with annual commemorative events
near Borki, but they were not the essential part of each October issue. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-0ff404eb1b8b4cbca58833b442e654772023-11-02T06:54:57ZengBucharest University PressUniversity of Bucharest Review. Literary and Cultural Studies Series2734-59632021-12-01X/20202486210.31178/UBR.10.2.4Remembrance of the Borki Train Disaster in the Eparchial Part of “Faith and Reason”Antonina Kizlova0“Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”, Kyiv; Ukraine.In the Russian empire of the 19th century, every important event in the life of the ruling dynasty became newsbreak for various periodicals. On October 17, 1888, all the carriages of the imperial train were wrecked at Borki (Kharkiv province and eparchy). There were 23 victims and 35 badly wounded in the disaster, but the emperor Alexander III, his wife and children escaped without serious injury. In the view of the state religion, this miraculous salvation was considered to be a divine blessing and was consequently immortalized in an hermitage near Borki, by charitable institutions, etc. The study of these practices can help amplify the lore about the politics of remembering and representations of memory about the sovereign. The case of the Kharkiv region, where the crash took place is scantily investigated. This work deals with the materials about the Romanovs’ survival, published in both official and unofficial parts of the main Orthodox magazine of the Kharkiv eparchy during 1889–1915. The author studies the contexts of all mentionings about the disaster and concludes that these publications were connected mainly with annual commemorative events near Borki, but they were not the essential part of each October issue.https://ubr.rev.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/AntoninaKizlova.pdfkharkiv eparchy in 1889–1915commemorationrussian empireromanov familysaviour’s skete |
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