Den sista munken i Ingermanland : Fantasten Lëvuška Lemboinen från Wanhimala by

• This paper analyses sources for the life of the Ingrian peasant prophet Lëvuška (Leontij, Laure) Semenov Lemboinen (fl 1619–52), previ- ously known to scholarship mainly from a 1637 court hearing at Nyenskans. The movements of his family from Korbosel ́skij to Ingris (Ižorskij) pogost in 1617/18 are traced, and the environments in which he became a man are reconstructed. The paper adduces some new information about the events leading to the 1637 court examination as well as Lemboinen’s time in prison, and identifies him, in his final years, as the probable leader of a semi-monastic community of both sexes in an abandoned religious house on the banks of Lake Ladoga.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)

Keyword

17th century

Ingria

Lëvuška Lemboinen

peasant prophets

monasteries

Orthodox sects

slaviska språk

Slavic Languages

History

historia

History of Religion

religionshistoria

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kap (subject category)