Aims and objectives
The purpose of the project is to research, digitise and archive early Cyrillic books and manuscripts of old believers in Kostroma region. This will give opportunity to preserve and capture vanishing traditional material and spiritual culture characteristic of the Russian late Middle Ages and Modern Times. Key traits of these epochs remain in the mostly integral form particularly in the old believers communities, which are socially and geographically detached from the environs. Project participants plan to visit traditional residing places of old believers, digitise books and manuscripts and, if the owners give consent, transfer some of the books and manuscripts to Kostroma Museum-Reserve for storage.
Outcomes
The records copied by this project have been catalogued as:
- EAP990/1 Печатные книги и рукописи из библиотеки церкви святого Николая села Чернопенье Printed books and manuscripts from the library of the Church of St. Nicholas of the village of Chernopen“e (Late 18th century-Late 20th century)
- EAP990/2 Семейный архив семей Скобёлкиных и Шутовых Family archive of Skobyolkin and Shutov families
(Late 19th century-Late 20th century) - EAP990/3 Печатные книги, рукописи и фотографии из архива старообрядца Николая Зайцева Printed books, manuscripts and photographs from the archive of the Old Believer Nikolai Zaitsev (Late 17th century-Late 20th century)
- EAP990/4 Семейный архив Леонтьевых и Трухачёвых Family archive of the Leontievs and Trukhachevs
(Early 20th century) - EAP990/5 Документы о борьбе Русской православной церкви со старообрядчеством в Солигаличском уезде Костромской губернии Documents on the struggle of the Russian Orthodox Church with the Old Believers in the Soligalich district of Kostroma region (1862?-1886)
- EAP990/6 Фотографии семей Горбуновых и Разживиных Photos of the Gorbunovs and Raz'zhivins families
(Early 20th century-Mid 20th century) - EAP990/7 Фотографии старообрядца А.П. Серова (1899 — 1974) Photos of the Old Believer A.P. Serov (1899 - 1974) (1930s-1960s)
