Cyrillic Book Collections and their Owners: Comparative Analysis of Old Believers` Confession Strategies

The article considers the book collections of the Old Believers as the source of the information about the confession strategies of their owners. The material for the research is the collections of Cyrillic books of 15-20th centuries, belonged to the different groups of the Siberian Old Believers. The analysis showed that a) the selection of the book (liturgy, regulations, reading) isn't always based on dogma, it is influenced by the social environment of the existence of the group; в) the preservation by the Old Believers the inner differences connected with the extension the functions of the Cyrillic text in the routine.

Cyrillic book, confession strategy, Old Believers, book collections of the Old Believers, functions of the confession book