BISERICA ORTODOXĂ DIN BASARABIA ȘI EDIFICAREA MONUMENTULUI ȚARULUI ALEXANDRU I

Abstract

The present article, in fact, continues one of the previously presented communications regarding the involvement of the Orthodox Church in the "jubilee mania" process, triggered by the tsarist authorities, especially in the second decade of the 20th century. In the present material we will focus on a concrete case, namely the one related to the inauguration of the monument of Emperor Alexander I in Chisinau, a phenomenon that is known throughout the empire, when it becomes a fashion to focus the attention of the masses on the previous visits of representatives of the Romanov family of one or another locality, and at the same time through such actions to cement the image of imperial persons among the population. And this is practiced even more intensively, after the erosion of the Tsar's image following the events of 1905-1907.

The material, using both archival materials and periodicals of the time, describes the event that took place in 1914, in Chisinau at a very early time before the start of the Great War, but also analyzes a series of sides and events related to the main actors involved in this event, the role played by the head of the Orthodox Church in the region, but also by the Church Institution itself in the organization and implementation of the inauguration of the monument to Emperor Alexander I and on this occasion of the visit of the capital of the region by Nicholas II.

The theme related to the involvement and impact on the large mass of the population of Bessarabia in general and Chisinau in particular is not left out of attention either.