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I.K. SMOLITCH AS A SCHOLAR IN THE HISTORY OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH. HIS LIFE AND HERITAGE

The aim of the research is the reconstruction of the creative biography of Igor Smolitch, as well as the assessment of the significance of his heritage to the Russian historical science. The very figure of Igor Smolitch whose biography appeared a mirror-image of complex and ambiguous events in the history of Russia in the beginning of the 20th century is as relevant to the topic of the article as its historiographical issues. I.K. Smolitch, a Russian and a German scholar, wrote a fundamental work devoted to the Synod period in the history of the Russian Church which was published in Russia many years after its publication in Germany and was highly appreciated To date, no comprehensive study of the works and views of I.K.Smolich has been carried out in Russian and foreign historiography.The historical method as well as the traditional methods of source study used in the present work allowed to define the scope of the sources and to evaluate their importance for the analysis. The most significant for the research was the systematic approach the essence of which was the understanding of Igor Smolitch’s creative heritage as a complicated system composed of an array of separate elements that are diversely interconnected and mutually