Зарубежное влияние на повседневную жизнь уральских старообрядцев конца XVIII в. - начала XIX в
Foreign Influence in Everyday Life of Ural Old Believers (Late 18th - Early 20th Centuries)

Summary/Abstract: The paper is devoted to analysis of the reflection of European innovations in the manuscripts of Old Believers and their everyday life in the late 18 th and early 20th century. The main sources the paper is based on are manuscripts from the depository of the Laboratory of Studies in Archaeography of the Ural Federal University - the largest depository of old- printed books and manuscripts in Russia outside Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. In the course of manuscript analysis, it was found that there were main directions of the foreign influence criticism: food restrictions, tobacco, clothes, outward appearance, customs, etc. The Old Believers’ relation to European innovations changed in time. It was determined by economical processes and processes of secularization. The Old Believers tried to substantiate acceptance of foreign innovations by writing essays in a traditional form. In addition, there were some differences between different social groups of the Old Believers. The Old Believers entrepreneurs accepted foreign innovations faster than other Old Believers.

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