WELL-READ MEN OLD BELIEF: HISTORY-CULTURE ASPECT
The article is dedicated to such phenomenon in Russian religious history as ‘‘nachetnichestvo''. The author provides an explanation of this term among historians, writers and Old Believers and discusses the qualities of the well-read men such as wide reading, ability for polemics and preaching a sermon. This work demonstrates an ambiguity of the term and also a transformation of this notion in Russian history and culture.