Аннотация: In 1900–1914, Rozanov’s popularity in Russia was extraordinary due to his books and articles concerning the questions of the Russian Orthodox Church’s renovation, he received an enormous amount of letters from his contemporaries, including young clerics and monks yearning for answers to their religious and moral questions or for his comments on their spiritual works. But the preoccupation with religious reformism led him to confrontation with the Church, and in this confrontation he had had an ally and an advisor in the person of Alexsandre Ustyinsky, whose letters and notes the former used in his journalism. The study was based on unpublished letters of writer Vasiliy Rozanov and orthodox priest Ust’insky, the letters are from two .archival collections in Moscow (RGALI and literary manuscripts department of the Russian Public Library). The article provides the findings of the research on unpublished archival correspondence between V. Rozanov and the Russian Orthodox Church archpriest A. Ustyinsky as to whether the writer indeed was an original religious thinker among ‘neo-Christians’. The examination of unpublished correspondence between V. Rozanov and Novgorod archpriest Alexander Ustyinsky has shown that Rozanov was not independent in his judgments with regards to a range of religious problems which his contemporaries connected to the reformation of the Russian Church, and in this sense the writer’s oeuvre is only yet to be studied.

Ключевые слова: Ustyinsky, Rozanov, religious reformism, neo-Christianity, Orthodox Church, ‘flesh and spirit’, letters, confrontation with Church, movement of ‘modernism, historic Christianity.

Контактная информация: Vorontsova Irina Vladimirovna, 115184, Russia, Moscow, Novokuznetskaya 3 Б, 2.

Библиография:
VORONTSOVA, IRINA (2011) ‘Протоиерей Александр Устьинский и “неохристианство”. Путь от “реформаторства” к расколу: На материале переписки с В. В. Розановым 1907–1919 гг. (Archpriest Alexander Ustyinsky and the “neo-Christianity”. The Way from “Reformation” towards Schism: Based on the Correspondence with V. V. Rozanov in 1907–1919)’, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities Herald (II) 5(42), 66–74.
VORONTSOVA , IRINA (2010) ‘Разработка тезисов “неохристианской” доктрины в переписке В. В. Розанова и протоиерея А. П. Устьинского (1898–1901) (The Development of the “Neo-Christian” Doctrine in the Correspondence between V.V. Rozanov and Archpriest A. Ustyinsky (1898–1901))’, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities Herald (II) 2(35), 7–21.
ROZANOV, VASILY (1901) ‘Брак и христианство: Моя переписка с православным священником (Wedlock and Christianity: My Correspondence with an Orthodox Priest)’, The Russian Labor 47, 21–22; 48, 20–22; 49, 20–21; 50–51, 30–34; 52, 18–22.
ROZANOV, VASILY (1990) Сочинения (Collected Works). I (Moscow)
ROZANOV, VASILY (2001) Апокалипсис нашего времени (Apocalypse of Our Times). (Saint Petersburg)
SHARAPOV, SERGEI (1901) Сущность брака (The Essence of Wedlock) (Saint Petersburg), 115–125.
USTYINSKY, ALEXANDER (1901) ‘О “незаконнорожденных”: Письмо в редакцию (On “Illegitimate Children:” Letter to the Editor)’, The New Time 9238, 4.
USTYINSKY, ALEXANDER (1899) ‘О В. В. Розанове и его религии брака (On V. V. Rozanov and His Religion of Wedlock)’, The Russian Labor 24, 11–14.
Research Department of Manuscripts at the Russian State Library, Fund 249. М. 4209.
Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Fund 419, Collection 1.

References (transliteration):
VORONTSOVA, IRINA (2011) ‘Protoierey Aleksandr Ust'inskiy i “neokhristianstvo”. Put' ot “reformatorstva” k raskolu: Na materiale perepiski s V. V. Rozanovym 1907–1919 gg. (Archpriest Alexander Ustyinsky and the “neo-Christianity”. The Way from “Reformation” towards Schism: Based on the Correspondence with V. V. Rozanov in 1907–1919)’, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities Herald (II) 5(42), 66–74.
VORONTSOVA , IRINA (2010) ‘Razrabotka tezisov “neokhristianskoy” doktriny v perepiske V. V. Rozanova i protoiereya A. P. Ust'inskogo (1898–1901) (The Development of the “Neo-Christian” Doctrine in the Correspondence between V.V. Rozanov and Archpriest A. Ustyinsky (1898–1901))’, Saint Tikhon’s Orthodox University of Humanities Herald (II) 2(35), 7–21.
ROZANOV, VASILY (1901) ‘Brak i khristianstvo: Moya perepiska s pravoslavnym svyashchennikom (Wedlock and Christianity: My Correspondence with an Orthodox Priest)’, The Russian Labor 47, 21–22; 48, 20–22; 49, 20–21; 50–51, 30–34; 52, 18–22.
ROZANOV, VASILY (1990) Sochineniya (Collected Works). I (Moscow)
ROZANOV, VASILY (2001) Apokalipsis nashego vremeni (Apocalypse of Our Times). (Saint Petersburg)
SHARAPOV, SERGEI (1901) Sushchnost' braka (The Essence of Wedlock) (Saint Petersburg), 115–125.
USTYINSKY, ALEXANDER (1901) ‘O “nezakonnorozhdennykh”: Pis'mo v redaktsiyu (On “Illegitimate Children:” Letter to the Editor)’, The New Time 9238, 4.
USTYINSKY, ALEXANDER (1899) ‘O V. V. Rozanove i ego religii braka (On V. V. Rozanov and His Religion of Wedlock)’, The Russian Labor 24, 11–14.
Research Department of Manuscripts at the Russian State Library, Fund 249. M. 4209.
Russian State Archive of Literature and Art, Fund 419, Collection 1.