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Knigopisnaia Deiatel`nost` i Literaturnoe Tvorchestvo Udorskikh Staroverov
[ Old Believers` culture of the Komi region in the 18th - 20th centuries : Book writing and literary work of the Old Believers from Udora District]
St. Petersburg: Pushkinskii dom, 2010 528 p. [8 ill.] Hardcover. 14 x 20 cm. Printing 500 ISBN: 978-5914760271 Language: Russian
This book examines the dissemination of the Old Belief in the territory of Udorskii District of the Komi Republic from the late 18th - 20th centuries, religious affiliation of local residents, peculiarities of their everyday life and religious behavior, "anti-Old Belief" policy of the local administration. Special attention is given to handwritten literary work of Old Believers of the Udorskii District, characteristics of types of handwritten collections, their main topics, ornamentation, epistolary and polemical texts etc. (0.665 kg.)