Ethno reviewEthno reviewЭтнографическое обозрение0869-54153034-6274The Russian Academy of Sciences68303310.31857/S0869541525010022URWEYCSpecial Theme of the Issue: Ritualism in the space of the modern cityСпециальная тема номера: Обрядность в пространстве современного городаResearch ArticleMonuments to Saints: Controversies and Uncertainties Around the Sacral Landscape of Russian Cities [Pamiatniki sviatym: protivorechiia i neopredelennosti sakral’nogo landshafta rossiiskikh gorodov].Памятники святым: противоречия и неопределенности сакрального ландшафта российских городовhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9298-7783RadchenkoDaria A.РадченкоДарья Александровна
Russian Federation

канд. культурологии, старший научный сотрудник Лаборатории теоретической фольклористики Школы актуальных гуманитарных исследований

darradchenko@gmail.comInstitute for Social Sciences Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public AdministrationИнститут общественных наук РАНХиГС при Президенте РФ (ШАГИ ИОН РАНХиГС)150120251234505062025Copyright ©; 2025, Russian Academy of SciencesCopyright ©; 2025, Российская академия наук2025Russian Academy of SciencesРоссийская академия наукhttps://journals.eco-vector.com/0869-5415/article/view/683033

From 1991 to 2023, over 470 monuments to saints were erected in Russia. These new points of the sacred landscape turn out to be objects of public ritual practices (both official and vernacular) and the causes of urban conflicts associated with the implementation or impossibility of implementing regular public space practices near such a monument. Based on the material of media texts (including social media), we identify key controversies associated with monuments to saints, ideologies of interaction with them, and the reflection of these ideologies in the monuments themselves, texts about them, and ritual practices associated with them. Research showed that the key point of conflict is the concordance between the memorial and the visual, affective and / or ideological landscape of the territory where it is located, as understood by emergent ensembles of urban actors.

В 1990–2020-е годы в России было установлено свыше 470 памятников святым. Эти новые точки сакрального ландшафта оказываются одновременно и объектами публичных ритуальных практик (как официальных, так и вернакулярных), и причинами городских конфликтов, в том числе связанных с возможностью/невозможностью реализации привычных горожанам действий вблизи скульптуры святого. На материале текстов СМИ и “новых медиа” мы выявляем ключевые контроверзы и идеологии взаимодействия, связанные с памятниками святым, а также отражение этих идеологий в самих памятниках, в текстах о памятниках и сопряженных с памятниками ритуальных практиках. В результате показывается, что ключевой точкой конфликта становится соответствие коммеморативного объекта тому, как эмерджентные ансамбли городских акторов понимают визуальный, аффективный и/или идеологический ландшафт территории, на которой этот объект расположен.

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