The only version of «A story of a merchant daughter…» has survived as a part of a late 18th century Siberian Old Believer manuscript (located at the Tomsk State University’s Scientific Library). This story is a author’s ...

The article presents the history of the collection of religious-philosophical prose by V. A. Zhukovsky. The conceptual structure of the collection is studied in a context of a circle of Zhukovsky’s religious reading. The ...

This paper contains a review of the sources used in the Patriarchal Homiliary. The translation of its extended form is known as the Teaching Gospel. The author’s work with the sources and his editing techniques are analyzed, ...

This article describes and classifies the miscellanies of constant or relatively constant composition, using the Augmented Psalter as an example. The different combinations of miscellanies that Augmented Psalter may include ...

The paper presents sоme 17th century Russian manuscripts that are classified as religious-didactic sborniks. They appear to have a number of features that are not representative for this type of compilations, such as «closed ...

The article presents the developmental history of Kormčaja-type collections of written works as miscellanies, from Nomocanon of st. Methodios through the Printed Kormčaja publishing in 1653. The common features of the ...

The paper deals with the problems of the early 18th century Old-Believers Literary Culture. «Еxamples» («paradigms») from the hand-written rhetorical anthologies, which had influenced sermon, a central element in the Vyg ...

The article gives the description of the most interesting six handwritten books of a well-known Pechora writer Ivan Myandin (1823–1894). Many literary adaptations of Old Russian tales and subject units of works were included ...