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1922 seizure of church valuables in Russia

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117: 165: 22: 183:. According to this document, all property in the Russian Orthodox Church and in other religious organizations, including land, premises, church utensils, was nationalized and became the property of the state. According to the decree, buildings and objects intended specifically for liturgical purposes, were given, under special decrees of local or central state power, to the free use of the respective religious societies. However, believers and the clergy were associated with the 327:Следственное дело Патриарха Тихона : Сб. док. по материалам Центр. архива ФСБ РФ. - М. : Правосл. Св.-Тихон. Богосл. ин-т, 2000. - 1015 с., (16) л. ил., портр. : ил., портр.; 25 см. - (Материалы по новейшей истории Русской Православной церкви / Правосл. Св.-Тихон. Богосл. ин-т; Ред. кол.: Протоиерей Владимир Воробьев (гл. ред.) и др.).; С. 129 283:Следственное дело Патриарха Тихона : Сб. док. по материалам Центр. архива ФСБ РФ. - М. : Правосл. Св.-Тихон. Богосл. ин-т, 2000. - 1015 с., (16) л. ил., портр. : ил., портр.; 25 см. - (Материалы по новейшей истории Русской Православной церкви / Правосл. Св.-Тихон. Богосл. ин-т; Ред. кол.: Протоиерей Владимир Воробьев (гл. ред.) и др.).; С. 86 34: 326: 282: 224:
The order to seize property was carried out with ruthless violence by Red soldiers. They often opened fire on crowds that surrounded churches in an attempt to defend them and on religious processions in protest against Church persecution. Thousands were killed in this way, especially in the spring of
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excommunicated the Soviet leadership on January 19, 1918 (Julian calendar) for conducting this campaign. In retaliation the regime arrested and killed dozens of bishops, thousands of the lower clergy and monastics, and multitudes of laity. The seizing of church property over the next few years would
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and were therefore routinely harassed and repressed against. Some believers tried to resist when representatives of the state confiscated the inventory churches and monasteries. Resistance was crushed, and resistance activists ended up prosecutred
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of property were seized. Out of these, one million gold roubles were spent for famine relief. In a secret March 19, 1922 letter to the Politburo, Lenin expressed an intention to seize several hundred million golden roubles for famine relief.
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issued a decree «On the Seizure of Church Jewelry». The decree ordered the local organs of Soviet power to remove from the churches all products made of gold, silver and precious stones and supposedly transfer them to the
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1918. Shooting down of religious processions are well documented in Voronezh, Shatsk (Tambov province), and Tula (where thirteen were killed and many wounded, including Bishop Kornilii).
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argued that the famine was used politically as an excuse for the Bolshevik leadership to persecute the Orthodox Church, which held significant sway over much of the peasant populace.
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Monument to clergy and laity killed during the Soviet anti-religious campaign. Shuya, the square in front of the Cathedral of the Resurrection of Christ
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seize the church inventory. The authorities opened fire, resulting in 4 people being killed and others severely wounded. After the events in
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were removed by state authorities from churches of all denominations. Subject to confiscation or articles intended exclusively for
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In Lenin's secret letter to the Politburo, Lenin explains that the famine provides an opportunity against the church.
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The Bolsheviks started a campaign of seizing church property in 1922. In that year over 4.5 million
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on May 8, 1922, for having opposed the confiscation of religious inventory.
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The 1922 confiscation of church property in Russia was held by the
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Decree on Separation of Church from State and School from Church
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On February 5, 1918, the Soviet government issued the
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The Russian Church Under the Soviet Regime, 1917-1983
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Bolshevik
Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Russian famine of 1921–1922
metals
gems
liturgical
holy chalices
clergy

Petrograd
Ivan Vladimirov
Decree on Separation of Church from State and School from Church
White movement
Samarin
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famine
All-Russian Central Executive Committee
Central Fund for the Relief of the Starving
occurred in Shuya
Red Army
Shuya

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