Początki badań kultury i języka staroobrzędowców w Polsce
The origins of culture and language of Old Believers in Poland

Summary/Abstract: The Old Believers – the descendants of Russians who in the middle of the seven­teenth century did not accept the reforms of Patriarch Nikon – had to leave their homeland due to persecution. They came to Poland about 300 years ago and in the area of the Old Republic, and they were treated with respect. In the Polish literature, the first mention of them appeared in the mid-nineteenth century, in the writings of Benedykt Tykiel and Karol Mecherzyński. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Karol Dębiński and Alfons Mańkowski also wrote about the Old Believers, and then Wiktor Piotrowicz, Jędrzej Giertych, Stefan Grelewski and Melchior Wańkowicz. In the postwar period, Wiktor Jakubowski conducted research on this community. Research on the Old Believers’ language, a well preserved Russian dialect, was organized by Anatol Mirowicz at the University of Warsaw – numerous works were prepared by Iryda Grek-Pabisowa and Irena Maryniakowa. The interest in the members of what now is called the Polish Pomeranian Old Believers Orthodox Church still continues, and numerous studies about various aspects of their lives are being conducted at the moment.

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