Православная духовная словесность в истории сибирской региональной литературы XVII – начала XX в. и в ретроспективной библиографии

Abstract

The article raises the question of understanding the place and significance of Orthodox spiritual literature in the history of Siberian literature. In fact, it is solved with regard to the literature of the 17th — first half of the 18th century, as well as Old Believers’ books, which have a rich tradition of study in Siberian medievistics. In the concept of further literary development of Siberia, the second half of the 18th — early 20th century, the development of which was started by the regionalists N.M. Yadrintsev and G.N. Potanin and continued by Soviet literary scholars, the presence of the Orthodox Church in the region was not considered as a significant factor of literary influence. Since the 1990s, a new view of the role of Christian tradition in the development of Russian literature has been formed, and filling the gaps in its study has become an urgent research task. The article presents the results achieved in this field by modern Siberian historical science and bibliography. These studies, in turn, create a basis for the philological study of Siberian spiritual literature in its continuous historical development from the Middle Ages to our time and in dialogue with secular literature.