SPIRITUAL POEMS MISCELLANY OF THE EARLY 20TH CENTU-RY: HIGHLIGHTS TO THE PORTRAIT OF THE COMPILER
Keywords:
eschatology, author’s collection, spiritual verses, decorative elements, miniatureAbstract
The article examines the content and decoration of the Old Believer eschatological Miscellany from the early 20th century, preserved in a private collection (Yurgamysh, Kurgan region). The compiler and designer of the Miscellany, as well as the author of small textual inserts, is one person, a member of the Pomor Old Believer community Amply Zakharovich Polynskikh, who lived in the village of Kamagan (Chelyabinsk region) in the first half of the 20th century. The compiler of the Miscellany tried to set out the Christian doctrine’s main positions on the Last Judgment and to show the way to the salvation of believers. For this purpose, he selected spiritual verses thematically and outlined his own understanding of the truth of faith, accompanying the texts by expressive graphic additions in the form of headpieces, endings, initials, two-color author's miniatures, as well as a set of colorful miniatures, probably taken from another Miscellany. This talentedly designed and well-compiled Miscellany is a variant of combining explanations of the “true faith’s” provisions, moralizing texts with a demonstration of a person’s moral choice and responsibility for everything that happens in life. In addition, the Miscellany is a historical source, which, thanks to the author’s notes, reflects the biography of a particular person, an Old Believer with his own interesting outlook on life, faith, the topic of salvation, etc. Numerous economic and memorial records provide an opportunity to see the private fate of a person of a certain occupation, with creative potential and artistic aspirations. The value of the Miscellany lies in the fact that it is both a talentedly constructed text with pictorial elements of decorative design, and an expressive historical source. It provides a window into a picture of life, occupations, and spiritual aspirations of the Old Believer community of the Ural region of the first half of the 20th century.References
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