Lecture: “Did Russia Have a Reformation?”

The St. Olaf College Russian Studies Department will host a lecture by University of Wisconsin-Platteville Associate Professor of History Andrey Ivanov titled Did Russia Have a Reformation? Slavic Orthodox Religious Change in the Pan-European Context 1700-1764. It is free and open to the public.

Ivanov will speak on the influence of the Reformation on East Slavic Orthodoxy, focusing on religious reforms that swept Russia and Ukraine during the reign of Peter I and his successors. While the Reformation played a pivotal role in the emergence of Western civilization, its impact on Europe’s peripheries and beyond remains debated. Ivanov’s work broadens the scope of the Reformation and repositions Orthodoxy within Europe’s early modern intellectual history.

This lecture is sponsored by the Leraas Fund and Lutheran Center for Faith, Values, and Community, with contributions from Special Collections.

Reception and Special Collections displays to follow.