TYPES OF ALTERNATIVE WRITING OF RELIGIOUS LEXICON IN LEXICOGRAPHIC WORKS OF THE CIVIL PRESS OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 18<sup>th</sup> CENTURY
In the offered article on the basis of lexicographic works of the civil press of the second half of the XVIII<sup>th</sup> century - "The church dictionary" (1773 - 1794) of the archpriest Pyotr Alekseev, "The short Slavic dictionary" of the abbot Evgeny (Romanov) (1784) and "the Dictionary of Academy Russian" (1789 - 1794) - the main types of alternative writing which concerned religious lexicon and also caused them the reasons are considered. As a result of the lingovtekstologichesky analysis the author draws a conclusion according to which the specified dictionary compositions are valuable sources in a question of studying of history of spelling of religious lexicon, considerably reflecting the spelling fluctuations connected with its codification. All variety of the alternative spelling forms of religious lexicon which are found in these works in work is classified and considered according to three main types: graphic-spelling, morphological and etimologo-word-formation. It is noted that the main reasons which caused spelling fluctuations in the area writing of religious lexicon were caused, on the one hand, by actual language factors connected with insufficient readiness to the second half of the XX<sup>th</sup> century of the theory of the Russian spelling and rules of spelling, and on the other hand, the cultural contradictions shown in opposition of church and civil written traditions.