The article discusses one of the various forms of parish activities of the Moscow clergy who served in the factory districts in the end of the nineteenth — at beginning of the twentieth century upon the example of the spiritual conversations that were held after the divine service.
parish, workers, priesthood, church activities, education, labour issues
1. Mavrickij V. A. Voskresnye i prazdnichnye vnebogosluzhebnye sobesedovanija kak osobyj vid cerkovno-narodnoj propovedi (Sunday and Feast Conversations except Liturgies as Special Art of Church-Folk Sermon), Voronezh, 1885.
2. Petropavlovskij I. D. O treh nachalah nashej gosudarstvennoj zhizni: pravoslavii, samoderzhavii i narodnosti (About Three Principles of Our State’s Life: Orthodoxy, Autocracy, National Character), M., 1896.
3. Vnebogosluzhebnye sobesedovanija s narodom (Conversations with Folk except Liturgies), M., 1895–1899.
4. Desjatiletie obshheobrazovatel'nyh chtenij dlja fabrichno-zavodskih rabochih goroda Moskvy (Decade of the Educational Readings for the Factory Workers of Moscow), M., 1912.
5. Otchet komissii obshheobrazovatel'nyh chtenij dlja fabrichno-zavodskih rabochih za 1905–1906 gg. (Report of the Commission of the Educational Readings for the Factory Workers for 1905–1906), M., 1906.