„Ziemia chłopom”: ideał życia zakonnego w poglądach biskupa chełmskiego Eulogiusza między narodnictwem a nacjonalizmem

Abstract

The article aims to analyse the ideological sources and the social and cultural context in which the Orthodox Bishop of Kholm and Lublin Eulogius Georgiyevsky (Eulogius of Paris) grew up and was educated at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Particular attention is paid to his ideal of serving the Russian people and the Orthodox Church between narodnichestvo and the modern Russian Nationalism. Nationalist tendencies developed most often by contact with the Polish‑Catholic identity in the borderlands of the Russian Empire. Eulogius was the main supporter of the creation of the Kholm gubernija (1912), which aimed to support the formation of the Russian‑Orthodox identity of former Uniates from Kholm and Podlasie region. The author also emphasizes how the further actions of the bishop as a leader of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia reflect in some way the Slavophile ideology which to some extent was at the core of the Russian bishop’s ideal of religious life.