Abstract:

The article contains information about campaign of Church’s property expropriation in Tula diocese in 1921—1922. It was a part of soviet power’s attack against Russian Orthodox Church after Russian Revolution in October 1917. The main object of campaign was expropriation of church`s property: church utensils, icon vestments made of precious metals. The strategic purpose of the campaign is Church property’s resale to the West for supply Soviet Russia´s international reserves. The campaign was failed in Tula. It was expropriated incomparably fewer property than it was supposed earlier.

Keywords: church, soviet power, property, clergy, chalice, paten, icon vestments, finance department, the Committee for Famine Relief