Spiritual Verses in the Handwritten Tradition and Culture of the Old Believers Northern Vyatka (based on Materials of Repository of the Pushkinsky Dom)

Collecting und studying of spiritual verses in Russia began in the middle of XIX century. Publication of these texts was allowed only to researchers, but not for old-believers, who had to make it secretly until the beginning of XX century. With the advent of Soviet power, the Old Believers were again forced to go underground. At the same time, the main and most complete editions of spiritual poems remained those that did not take into account either the territorial or confessional origin of the texts. For a long time, researchers studied the texts of spiritual poems in isolation, out of the context of their origin and existence. Thanks to the expeditionary activities of the 20th century researchers, collections of manuscripts and old printed books were formed. But Only by the twenty-first century did researchers apply the general principle of dividing materials according to territorial principle to collections of spiritual poems. This paper is a study of the Vyatka Collection of the IRLI RAS, which has not been considered before. Keywords: Spiritual poems, Vyatka, Northern Vyatka, Old Believership, Filippov's Concordance