On the Question of Religious Deviations of the Orthodox Parish Clergy of the Post-Reform Period (on the example of Kazan province)

The article is devoted to the analysis of such a little-studied phenomenon in Russian historiography as religious deviations among the provincial parish clergy. Given the fact that the degree of immersion of the rural clergy in the environment of his flock was very significant, it would be logical to assume that popular religiosity, in all its diversity, had a significant impact on the nature of the orthodoxy of the clergy and the canonicity of their daily behavior. However, archival sources reveal a slightly different picture of the indicated problem.