Manuscript staroboredschesky "Pseudozlatoust" of the second half of XIX century from the collection Laboratory of archeographic research of the Ural Federal University

Abstract

In the presented work the author studies the Old Believers hand-written collection of the second half of the XIX century, which has a very unusual structure. The author conducts the attribution of the manuscript and examines its internal structure. It is concluded that the book was compiled in the framework of one of the bespopovskih accords of the Old Believers, which determined the basic elements of its composition. In this case, the collection, apparently, was intended for a very wide range of readers, among whom could even be representatives of the priestly direction of the Old Believers. Within the framework of the work, the principles of interaction between individual content blocks of the book are established. Extensive eschatological and polemical elements of the collection are noted. The researcher concludes that the motive for placing in a compilation of a work was its archaic and authority in the eyes of "zealots of ancient piety", which led to a wide borrowing of texts from the most popular printed editions of the turn of the XVIII-XIX centuries.