The aim of this paper is to present the cult of icons in the Old Believer communities from the perspective of private devotion. For the Old Believers, from the beginning of the movement, in the middle of the 17th century, icons were at the center of ...
Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska
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Black-hundreds and old believers: frustrated alliance [PDF]
The article studies the relationship between right-wing monarchist parties and unions of the Russian Empire in the early 20th century (Black Hundreds) and Russian Old Believers. Using materials of right-wing party manifestos and speeches of Black-Hundred
Andrey Ivanov
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The division that occurred in the Patriarchate of Muscovy in the middle of the 17th century resulted in a large part of the believers being alienated from the clergy; in consequence, many communities of the Old Believers, who had come to terms with this ...
Aleksandra Sulikowska-Bełczowska
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Variability of Perm Old Believers’ Name System in the Early 20th-Century Middle Prikamye [PDF]
The article describes the variability of the name system of Perm Old Believers — former peasants of the Stroganov Perm estate living in Middle Prikamye in the early 20th c., that ostensibly belonged to the Chasovennye confession. The research is based on
Evgeniya V. Zapolskikh
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Old Believers’ Personal Names in a Foreign Language Environment. Review of the book: Ziółkowska-Mówka, M. (2018). System antroponimiczny staroobrzędowców mieszkających w Polsce [Anthroponymic System of Old Believers Living in Poland]. Toruń: Eikon. 469 s. [PDF]
The article provides an overview of the book Anthroponymic System of Old Believers Living in Poland by the Polish researcher M. Ziółkowska-Mówka. This 5-chapter book includes an outline of the history of the Old Believer’ movement and its general ...
Anna A. Plotnikova
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Russian Old Believers in Latin America
In the 1950s and 1960s, over 300 families of Russian Old Believers left their country’s Far East region to move first to China and later to Latin America, fleeing mainly to Brazil and Argentina to escape persecution once the collectivization began in the
D. V. Belov
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On the threshold of the Great Terror: Deacon of the Old Believers Ivan Afanasievich Vlasov and the case of the Moscow Neocircular Old Believers clergy of 1937 [PDF]
The article examines the mechanism of political repression against believers by the example of the case of the Moscow neocircular Old Believer clergy. The central figure of the article is the deacon of the Old Believers prayer Ivan Afanasievich Vlasov as
Nikonov, Vadim V.
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Surrounded by glaciers and untamed wilderness on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula lies the village of Nikolaevsk, an insular community of 350 Russian Orthodox Old Believers. Still donning traditional attire, they speak a dying Russian dialect and follow strict rules dating back to medieval times.They've been here since the 1960s but their story begins in the ...
Loughlin, Ryan, Jonassen, Wendi
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THE STROGANOV OR OLD BELIEVERS’ ICON PAINTING TRADITION IN THE WORKS OF N.S. LESKOV [PDF]
N.S. Leskov is known to have been a collector of icons and a connoisseur of history and techniques of icon painting. In his work as a writer he made use of his visual impression of icons painted in the old believers' tradition.
Yana Valeryevna Karsakova
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Old Believers about Themselves (a sociolinguistic aspect)
The aim of the research is to review and compare different points of view about old believers: official-fixed in Russian dictionaries; notions of representatives of different religious dominations; views of old believers about themselves.
N V Ivanova
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