title: Russian popular eschatology and the legend of Peter the Great as antichrist
metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Perrie, Maureen
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:04:08Z
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2017-01-13T10:04:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2016-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Perrie M. Russian popular eschatology and the legend of Peter the Great as antichrist. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2016, issue 4, pp. 77–86.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.identifier.other
metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2016.407
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.uri
metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/5925
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the legend about Peter the Great as Antichrist, in the form in which it circulated
  during Peter’s lifetime. The author considers some of the ‘evidence’ that Peter was Antichrist:
  predictions that the world would end soon after 1666; the calculation that Peter was the eighth tsar of
  Muscovy (cf. the eight kings of the Apocalypse); that his name resembled that of Simon the Magician
  (Simon Petrov), the first precursor of the Antichrist; and that his policies, behaviour and appearance
  were Satanic. These ideas about Peter as Antichrist were derived from sources such as the prophetic
  books of the Bible, the writings of the Church fathers, and the Book of St Cyril of Jerusalem (1644).
  Some of the motifs of the legend of Peter as Antichrist resembled those of the legend that Peter was
  a ‘substituted’ tsar: both legends attempted to explain the strange nature of Peter’s Westernising
  innovations, but the Antichrist legend was more ‘intellectual’, based as it was on a profound knowledge
  by its advocates (Old Believers and others) of Holy Scripture and eschatological literature. Refs 21.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. Series 2. History;Issue 4
metadata.lang: -
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Peter I
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: eschatology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Russian popular legends
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Antichrist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Apocalypse
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Old Believers
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Russian popular eschatology and the legend of Peter the Great as antichrist
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.type
metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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