Abstract
The article is devoted to the tradition of giving spiritual verses as a gift, which arose among Old Believers and representatives of the Orthodox Church parish circle in the first half of the 20th century influenced by the genre of. The Old Believers’ miscellanies, called “Sticharniks”, kept in regional book collections or currently existing among believers, were used as the material. The place of the spiritual verse in the traditional process of donation is demonstrated, as well as the function of preserving the individual memory of the donator, which in the Old Believers and the Orthodox Church parish environment performed the handwritten “Sticharniki”.
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