Abstract
In 18th-century Russia the Synodal Church and the secular authorities made considerable efforts to eradicate parishioners’ superstitions and impious practices. There were not only cases of magical beliefs and heresies that attracted the attention of investigative authorities and the inquisition court but also people divulging miracles and eschatological visions. The paper deals with 50 investigative cases (most of them have not been previously explored) from national archives in Moscow and St Petersburg, and the state archives of the Yaroslavl and Rostov regions. All these cases include stories about miraculous visions, revelations or healings. The study attempts to identify some typical traits of the structure, the figurative system of narratives about miracles, their etiological components, and their circulation in the borderlands of folklore culture and church literature.
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