Book Collection Inventories of the Church Parish of the Village Usolye on Volga as a Historical and Book Source of the XVII Century
Submitted by Гость (not verified) on Sun, 07/30/2023 - 23:38Book collections of parish churches represent a special phenomenon of the Russian book culture. Despite of the fact that these collections were, as a rule, small and performed a purely liturgical function, their careful study expands our ideas about the culture and life of the Orthodox population, about the ways of distributing handwritten and printed books. This topic is of particular importance for the analysis of the ethno-confessional policy of the Russian state in the XVI–XVII centuries in the annexed territories of the Volga region, the Urals and Siberia.