The study is devoted to one of the local phenomena in the evolution of Russian Orthodoxy - the doctrine of the "New Prophecy" created in the territory of the Kama region by the Perm official Adrian Pushkin and continued in the writings of his follower Alexander Korobov. The main purpose is to establish the logic of the evolution of "prophetic" narratives of this kind as manifestations of vernacular religiosity. The sources for the analysis are messages addressed to Pushkin himself, as well as newspaper and magazine publications and Korobov's polemical letters contained in the central archives and archives of the Perm region. To verify the information received, materials from police cases filed against the "new prophets" were used. The starting points of the analysis are considered in the reconstruction of the biography of both thinkers in order to establish the degree of influence in the ideological aspect. The main provisions of the teaching proposed by Pushkin in its evolution are consistently stated, as well as the corrections and additions made to this teaching by Korobov. The texts are analyzed as having a doctrinal character, without taking into account the social context and the peculiarities of the psyche of their authors. In the course of the analysis, the changes that Pushkin and Korobov tried to make to the Christian doctrine are highlighted, special attention is paid to the innovations that the latter introduces. Structurally, the new teaching includes a new interpretation of the image of the Trinity, the development of the idea of Christian prophecies through new personalities, a set of predictions of an eschatological nature. Important components are criticism of the existing power of the emperor and official institutions, as well as proposals for the reorganization of public life. The changes proposed by the new prophets, especially Alexander Korobov, make it possible to draw parallels between their ideas and the positions of the reformist churches of the West. The combination in religious narratives of an individual interpretation of Christian positions, elements of scientific and near-scientific concepts and ideas related to the restructuring of society, allows for considering these "prophecies" as a combination of vernacular religiosity and reformist tendencies in the Russian Orthodoxy.