Les catholiques russes et les pro-catholiques en Russie dans la première moitié du XIXe siècle

Abstract

Lucjan Suchanek, Russian Catholics and pro-Catholics in Russia, in the first half of the nineteenth century. Conversion of Russians to Catholicism (openly or clandestinely, in Russia or abroad) should be examined under its religious aspect, but the act of conversion, officially designated in insulting terms: "denaturation into Catholicism" was also a form of evaluation and criticism of Russian spirituality, a reaction to the external religiosity and atheistic tendencies. Conversion to Catholicism was not only a confessional act but also a manifestation of revolt against the State which had subjugated the Church to its authority and against the Church that had become in the eyes of converts a servant of the State. The article names the following Russian Catholics and pro-Catholics : P. Kozlovskii, S. Svechina, Z. Volkonskaia, N. Gogol', V. Pecherin, I. Gagarin, M. Lunin, P. Chaadaev.