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THE STORY OF ONE PEASANT FAMILY AND OLD BELIEVER MANUSCRIPTS OF THE LATE XX CENTURY: RECENT ACQUISITIONS OF RARE BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS DEPARTMENT OF TOMSK STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH LIBRARY // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2015. Issue 4 (10). P. 69-98

The article reviews a history of an old believer’s family, residing in the territory of Altai and exiled to the Tomsk region in the 1930s. The biographies of family members were reconstructed. One of the representatives of the family – E. A. Yakovleva – wrote several manuscripts in the 1980s., which are stored now in Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of Tomsk State University Research Library (ORKP NB TGU). The manuscripts were analyzed from the paleographical point of view and in terms of content as well. It was found that E. A. Yakovleva's manuscripts includes mainly liturgical texts, mostly canons. A comparison was accomplished between E. A. Yakovleva's manuscripts and other manuscripts from ORKP. In particular, manuscripts of Skitskaia library (old believers of the north of Tomsk region) and “raskol'nichia” library of Tomsk seminary were involved. Catalogs of old believer's editions of XVIII–XIX were also used for analysis. It is concluded that the formation of text`s corpus under studying was occurred not earlier than the beginning of XIX century. Paleographical descriptions of E. A. Yakovleva's manuscripts are presented in the annex to the article.

Keywords: old believers, special resettlement, book history, paleography, codicology, Book of Canons, Tomsk region, Altay region