TO THE QUESTION OF THE HISTORY OF THE ORIGINAL OLD BELIEVER SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE INHABITANTS OF THE REGIONS OF CENTRAL RUSSIA. ON THE EXAMPLE OF OLD BELIEVERS’ PLACE OF THE MOSCOW REGION
In the history of the Russian regional old belief is very important question about the background of religious choice. Most of the old believer population of Central Russia, in spiritual terms, does not go back to the opponents of Patriarch Nicon of their number of his contemporaries, but to the groups of residents who adopted this religion at a later time. Many factors influenced the old believer’s self-determination. Some of them, on the example of the history of the old believers areas of the Moscow region, is described in this article.