Home›Sources›The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855SourcesThe Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-old-believers-and-the-world-of-antichrist-the-vyg-community-and-the-russian-state-1694-1855.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-old-believers-and-the-world-of-antichrist-the-vyg-community-and-the-russian-state-1694-1855Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-the-old-believers-and-the-world-of-antic, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855}, year = {2026}, url = {https://divinity.interactivelion.com/sources/the-old-believers-and-the-world-of-antichrist-the-vyg-community-and-the-russian-state-1694-1855}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXRobert O. Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that formed after the seventeenth century schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, examining how the community organized itself and negotiated survival under an often hostile Russian state. Its strength is close archival reconstruction of one specific, well documented Old Believer community, showing concretely how apocalyptic religious conviction translated into actual communal and economic organization. Its limit is that it focuses on this one community and period, so the broader and more varied history of Old Believer groups elsewhere in Russia needs separate sources to cover fully.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (53 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1Robert O. Crummey's scholarly history of the Vyg Old Believer community and its rejection of the Nikonian liturgical reforms within the Russian Orthodox Church; a focused academic history of this one community and period, not a general source on the Russian Orthodox Church's mainstream practice.NotesWell-attestedRobert Crummey's scholarly history of the Vyg Old Believer community and its rejection of the Nikonian liturgical reforms within the Russian Orthodox Church. Use for established historical facts about the Old Believer movement and the Nikonian reform controversy; a focused academic history of this one community and period, not a general source on the Russian Orthodox Church's mainstream practice.CitationAuthorWell-attestedRobert O. CrummeyPublisherWell-attestedUniversity of Wisconsin Press, MadisonPublication YearWell-attested1970Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithOld Believers, Denominations Well-attested This source names Old Believers directly: "Robert O. Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that..."Source The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Robert O. Crummeytier 1Russia, Countries Well-attested This source names Russia directly: "Crummey was a historian of Russia, and this academic book, published by University of Wisconsin Press, is a detailed history of the Vyg community, a major Old Believer settlement that formed after..."Source The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Robert O. Crummeytier 1Russian Orthodox Church, Denominations Well-attested This source names Russian Orthodox Church directly: "the seventeenth century schism in the Russian Orthodox Church, examining how the community organized itself and negotiated survival under an often hostile Russian state."Source The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Robert O. Crummeytier 1Claims Backed By This Source (53 claims)This source backs 53 claims across the atlas. As facts: 39 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 rejected Here, 4 held Differently. Plus 5 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicDenominations, 24 claims: 17 well-attested, 1 holds, 4 held Differently, 2 general references.Doctrines, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 1 rejected Here, 1 general references.Sources, 10 claims: 7 well-attested, 3 holds.Articles, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.Beliefs & Restrictions, 1 claims: 1 general references.Well-attested39ArticlesAvvakum and the Old Believer SchismNikon's Program and the Councils of 1666 and 1667Priestless and Priestly, and a Global DiasporaThe Old Rite, Persecuted Into Two Kinds of ChurchThe Raskol: Ritual, Not DoctrineDenominationsOld BelieversRussian Orthodox ChurchDoctrinesThe Nikonian Liturgical ReformsSourcesThe Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Holds4DenominationsOld BelieversSourcesThe Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855Rejected Here1DoctrinesThe Nikonian Liturgical ReformsHeld Differently4DenominationsOld BelieversGeneral References5ArticlesThe Old Rite, Persecuted Into Two Kinds of ChurchBeliefs & RestrictionsThe Old Rite as Received Before the Nikonian ReformsDenominationsOld BelieversRussian Orthodox ChurchDoctrinesThe Nikonian Liturgical ReformsComments (0)No comments yet. 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