Ural-Siberian Paterik. In 3 volumes. Book 1 (Volumes 1-2)

The Ural-Siberian Caterik is an extensive historical and agiographical essay created in the late 1940s - early 90s. In the largest in the east of Russia, the Old Believer Chapel Account. At the heart of the monument - the compositions of the Old Believers of the XVIII-XIX centuries. According to the history of its own confession, the recording of oral traditions, the author"s texts of the writers of the Catema - peasant writers. Caterik includes several dozen wildlife lifestyles, made in the agiography genre: in the conditions of the XX century. He reproduces the oldest agiographic genre, which he held a central place in medieval literature. It reflects such genres of the ancient Russian literature and folklore, as a miracle, eschatological vision, legend, legend. The publication includes the scientific publication of the texts of the first two volumes of the Catema (the last one - the third is preparing for printing) It also includes comments to the texts, biographical certificates about the heroes of the Catema, the name of the pointer and analytical articles of the publishers, covering the problems of sources, authorship, narrative and genre features of the monument. The monument is a rare source for the study of folk historosophy, religious-mythological, agiological and ethical views of the traditionalist consolidated segments of the population of Russia