The bishop of Kolomna and Kashira Paul in the Old Believers' literary tradition of the Vyg monastery
The present article is dedicated to historiography and source studies of the works of the Vyg monastery writers and to the analysis of the alteration of the bishop Paul's image. The personality of the bishop of Kolomna and Kashira Paul provoked a special interest of the old-orthodox writers in XVIII century for he was considered the first martyr for the «Old Belief». Particular care of the bishop Paul was taken by the writers of the famous old-orthodox monastery on the Vyg-river (on the White Sea coast). In their creations, throughout the 18th century the bishop Paul turned from the real historical personality into the mythological folk character.