Abstract
The article considers the foundations of the cultural identity of the Old Believers as an ethno- confessional community within the Russian people, the most important feature of which is a genetic connection with the culture of the Middle Ages, characterized by the presence of elements of a traditional culture dating back to the pre-Christian period, largely lost by the New Orthodoxy. Excessive saturation with magical rituals, remnants of pre-Christian ideas gave the Old Believers the originality of their cultural appearance that made them a bearer of great Russian traditions in their medieval version.
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