Historical and Eschatological Views of the Pechora Old-Believers (On the Material of Oral Stories of the Ust-Tsilma Peasants)
T.F. Volkova
Keywords: history of Old Belief, Old Believers' centers of traditional and book culture, the Lower Pechora, folk eschatology, oral history, peasants' tales, Syktyvkar University collection of folklore materials
Pages: 74-77
Abstract
Based on the materials kept in the Syktyvkar State University (the historical non-written storied told by the Pechora peasants and recorded during the expedition to the Lower Pechora) the article traces the views of the Pechora Old-Believers about the significant events in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church Split; about the interpersonal relations of its leading figures. The author showed how the informants interpreted some eschatological ideas. Such sources allow characterizing the mentality and historical views of the Pechora peasants$ the image of the Archpriest Avvakum kept in the people's memory; the peasants' perception of the events during the siege of the Solovetsky monastery; their ideas about the Judgement Day.
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