Несущий факел веры и родного языка (стезями судьбы одного старовера Орегона)
Carrying the Torch of Faith and Mother Tongue: An Oregonian Old Believer’s Paths of Faith

Summary/Abstract: This article is devoted to the extraordinary personality of Makar Afanas’evich Zeniukhin (1938-2020) a Bespopovets Old Believer belonging to Chasovennye Denomination from Xinjiang, and to his lifelong ordeals while migrating from China through Argentina to Woodburn, Oregon, and ending up in the Siberian Dubchessky Monastery, Russia. The account of his life reflects the consequences of the twenty-first century split in the Old Believers communities among the Oregonian Bespopovets Old Believers. It also describes Makar Zeniukhin’s dialect, including the characteristic features of his language variation on different levels. The research is based on the method of scientific description and discourse analysis that studies his language recorded during our conversations between 2004 and 2014. The article also describes his written languagebased on letters sent to us from the Siberian Dubchessky Monastery. Makar Zeniukhin’s oral narrations, coherent stories, and written letters are of particular value as historical and ethnographic resources depicting the events and life of Old Believers in Oregon, USA

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