Biserica ortodoxă din Basarabia şi participarea acesteia la jubileele imperiale în perioada 1911-1913

Abstract

In our communication, we propose to reflect a less researched aspect - the one with reference to the involvement of the Orthodox Church in Bessarabia in that trend that engulfed the Russian Empire, that of jubilee mania, triggered at the beginning of the 20th century. Our attention was also drawn to the fact that the Church Institution, in fact, is involved in the organization of jubilees, which have a secular character, on the one hand, and on the other, the attempts of this institution to become, in fact, the main organizer of the events , even if these did not have a religious tone, obviously taking into account the fact that the Orthodox Church still represented the dominant religion and a first pillar in the triad of Orthodoxy, Autocracy, People through which the Russian Empire tried to represent itself. We will try to analyse a series of jubilees, on the indicated segment, and the role played by the Church, such as those related to 50 years since the abolition of Serbia, 100 years since the incorporation of Bessarabia into the Russian Empire, 100 years since the victory of the Russian armies over Napoleon's armies or the inauguration of the monument to Alexander I, shortly before the start of the First World War, obviously highlighting the 100-year anniversary of the incorporation of Bessarabia into the Russian Empire.