Донские Епархиальные Ведомости

The Don Diocesan Gazette began to be published on January 1, 1869, in two sections, official and unofficial, weekly, at a price of 4 p. with shipping. Since 1870, Vedomosti began to be published twice a month. The 35 volumes of Vedomosti represent a visual history of the gradual development of this publication, which reached particular heights under the editors L. L. Kirillov (1881–1901) and prot. M. Simashkevich (since 1901). Since 1884, the editors began to provide special supplements, at first minor (the life of St. Cyril and Methodius, individual words - 1884), then entire collections of spiritual and edifying articles ("The Finger of God", issues I-IV, 1887-1891, patristic instructions - 1890, "For Lovers of the Word of God" 1890–1893), “Notes on accusatory theology,” prof. T. Epifanovich (1887), “Sacred History for Schools” (1889), “A Brief History of Russian Heresies” (1898), etc. From July 1, 1887, the price was increased to 5 rubles. 50 kopecks and, at the same time, an expansion of the program was promised (1887 No. 22). 1898 gave 26 issues, and from 1899 Vedomosti began to be published 3 times a month. From the external history of Vedomosti, it should also be mentioned that they first began to publish Kalmyk prayers in Russian letters (1874). Over the past 35 years, Vedomosti has published many articles that deserve attention. The most important theological: about the divine origin of Christianity and about the Orthodox Church, as the keeper of revealed truth (1876 and 1877), about the deity of Jesus Christ (1902), about the true Church of Christ (1891), about the significance of Orthodoxy in the history of the Russian people (1903), about the spiritual nature of man and its relationship to the body (1881 and 1882), psychological a study on the development and foundations of practical activity (1881), on conscience (1878), on the expediency of the world (1878), on rationalistic theology before the court of Orthodoxy (1899), on Buddhism (1871, 1872, 1875), on Buddhism and Christianity (1893), on Darwinism (1878), communism and socialism (1879 and 1880), about prayer in general and in particular, the Lord's Prayer (1886-1890), about reading the Bible (1900 and 1901), about the sign of the cross (1885), about veneration of the cross (1901), about the sacraments of baptism (1892 and 1893) and communion (1896), about fasting (1903), fasting (1885), about the holiday of the Nativity of Christ (1900 and 1901), etc., about the New Year (1902), about the meaning of anathema (1902), about slander and whispering (1869), etc.; historical: a look at the history of mankind (1891), readings on general church history (1900 and 1901), the history of the persecution of Christians (1901, 1902, 1899), the history of the Ecumenical Councils (1893–1896), the falling away of the Western Church from the Eastern (1897 and 1898), about St. Andrew of Crete and his canon (1900), about St. Vasily V. (1884), Gregory the Theologian (1884), John Chrysostom (1884), Rev. Nile Sorsk (1878), Seraphim of Sarov (1903), Tikhon of Voronezh (1883), Kirill Lukaris (1899–1901), history of the Don diocese (1877), and many others. etc. There are also many pedagogical and missionary articles, such as: the Moscow Council of 1666 and the schism (1871–1873), the activities of the Russian church against the schism after the great Moscow Council (1874–1875), the schism in the Don diocese (1870, 1874), readings denouncing the Russian Old Believer schism (1880–1881), articles and notes about various sects (1882–1903), about the Don Kalmyks (1871, 1873 and 1876), Kalmyk dictionary (1871 and 1875). All the so-called issues of the day found a more or less noticeable response in Vedomosti: public school, providing for the clergy, missionary and national interviews, anniversaries, diocesan chronicles - many pages of Vedomosti are devoted to all this. More or less detailed articles are devoted to Gogol (1902), Dostoevsky (1880 and 1881), and Pushkin (1899). There are several spiritual poems (1887 and 1889). In the archpastorship of Rev. Makarii "Vedomosti" noticeably acquired and firmly maintained a "historical" connotation; later they took on a missionary character; in very recent times they have been distinguished, to a certain extent, by their versatility and comparative abundance of content, wanting to be a complete “reflection of the life of the local church, called a diocese, with all its joys and sorrows, with all its needs” (“Donsk. E.V.” 1901 No. 32).