Spiritual verse in the Old Believers area in Urzcum district, Kirov region, in the early 21th century.


Jelena Krivosheina, 4th year student, Faculty of Humanities,
Vyatka State University
Kirov, Russia


The author analyses the collection of Old Believers spiritual verse gathered in ethnographers outfit in 2005 and reflects Old Believers folk tradition nowadays. Spiritual verse is one of the main sources of investigation of Old Believers main spiritual ideas which update in a modern cultural situation.