Photoportrait of old believer-strannik elder Alexsander Vasilievich Riabinin. Портрет фотографический страннического наставника Александра Васильевича Рябинина. Extent: 1 copy of photography. Size and dimensions of original material: Height 11.2 cm, width 8,1 cm. Condition of original materi...
The manuscript consists of several sheets from a school copy-book with sacred poems about hard drinking and about satan. The scribe learnt in Soviet school as he had a typical clerky hand, but his spelling evidences about his illiteracy. Рукопись представляет собой несколько листов, на которых ...
The manuscript includes the akathist to Virgin "All the grieved joy". The end of the manuscript is lost, so it keeps the text till the end of the 11th ikos only. The manuscript was written by Old believers' semi-uncial in the end of the 19th or in the beginning of the 20th centuries on the paper...
This fragment of manuscript keeps a canon to Virgin Hodegetria written in the end of the 19th century. The features of orthography indicate, that the canon was written by heart, it was not copied from any other book. The first two folios are lost. В рукопись входит канон Богородице Одигитрии, п...
Вопрос и ответ о поминовении старообрядцами в молитвах монархов
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This is an anonymous writing which is dated by 1811, about allowance for Old Believers to pray for sovereigns. The question was asked by Ilija Alexeev in connection with presenting of the petition to Russian Emperor to permit the foundation of the cemetery for Old Believers. Анонимное сочинение...
A set consists of 4 miniatures with representation of a cross and priest clothes in post reformation form and of a church service in old believers and "nickonians" traditions. Подборка содержит 4 миниатюры с изображениями: креста и священнического облачения в постреформенном виде и порядка церк...
It is a congratulatory card which was drawn on the tracing-paper as a frame headbande in a Pomorian style. There is a text of congratulations in the center of the frame: "Dear Praskovia Samojlovna, happy holiday. O. Alexeev. 1970, 22 of April". It is not an Easter congratulations as the Easter w...
A prayer to Saint Sisinius whom some people believed to be able to help a sick man suffered from fever. In Old Russia it was believed that the cause of fever were severe Triasovits who were sisters-daimons according to Slavonic legends. Old believers kept this faith. The prayer was written in th...
The miscellanea includes three sacred poems: "About Sion", "About deplorable life" and "Fatal Years". The first two verses were written by inks; the last verse was added later and written by pencil. The last verse is the most valuable as it describes the history of schism in Patriarch Nikon's ti...
It is a printed wall sheet with the drawings of Saints which are helpful during illness. There are 4 icons of Virgin and 55 pictures of Saints with inscriptions that tell the name of Saint, the date of his memory and which illness he is helpful against. The wall sheet was printed in Moscow in th...