The Old-Believers' book-written Lamentations: the Problems of the genre typology
The paper considers the problems of the genre typology and genesis of the Old-Believers' book-written Lamentations of the 17<sup>th</sup> -21<sup>th</sup> century. For the first time ever the author determines the common and differential features of the works, which serve as a basis for scientific identification of the Old-Believers' Lamentations as separate genre category. The author examines how the Old-Believers' writers used the stylistic features, images and tropes of the folklore Lamentations.