Bibliography

English Language Publications

Bushnell, John. Russian Peasant Women Who Refused to Marry: Spasovite Old Believers in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2017. 339 pp.

De Simone, Paul T. “Enemies and Partners: Resistance, Economics, and the Relationship between Old Believers and Imperial Russia.” MA thesis, Ohio State University, 2008.

—— “An Old Believer ‘Holy Moscow’ in Imperial Russia: Community and Identity in the History of the Rogozhskoe Cemetary Old Believers, 1771-1917.” PhD diss., Ohio State University, 2012. The dissertation is available for full download here through OhioLINK.

—— The Old Believers in Imperial Russia: Oppression, Opportunism, and Religious Identity in Tsarist Moscow. London: I. B. Tauris, 2018. 263 pp.

Crummey, Robert O. The Old Believers and the World of Antichrist: The Social and Economic Development of the Raskol in the Olonets Region, 1654-1744. 1964.

—— The Old Believers and the World of Anti-Christ: The Vyg Community and the Russian State, 1694-1855. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 1970.

—— Old Believers in a Changing World. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.

Heard, Albert F. The Russian Church and Russian Dissent: Comprising Orthodoxy, Dissent, and Erratic Sects. [Place of publication not identified]: Elibron Classics, 2005. 310 pp.1887 publication is available for full view via HathiTrust Digital Library.

Krevsky, Elena. Defining the Schism: Images and Interpretations of the Old Belief in Late Nineteenth-Century Russian Discourse. Ottawa: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2003. 293 pp. PhD diss., University of Alberta for full view through Library and Archives Canada.

Marsden, Thomas. Afanasii Shchapov and the Significance of Religious Dissent in Imperial Russia, 1848-70. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008. 104 pp.

Michels, Georg B., Nichols, Robert L., eds. Russia’s Dissident Old Believers, 1650-1950. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota, 2009. 316 pp.

Paert, Irina. Old Believers: Religious Dissent and Gender in Russia, 1760-1850. New York: Manchester University Press, 2003. 257 pp.

Rock, Stella. Popular Religion in Russia: “Double Belief” and the Making of an Academic Myth. London: Routledge, 2009. 234 pp.

Rogers, Douglas. Old Faith and the Russian Land: A Historical Ethnography of Ethics in the Urals. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 338 pp.

Robson, Roy Raymond. Old Believers in a Modern World: Symbol, Ritual, and Community, 1905-1914. 1992. 2, 343 pp. PhD diss., Boston College.

——Tradition and Transfiguration in the Iconography of Pimen Sofronov. Minneapolis, MN: Modern Greek Studies, 2009. 38 pp.

Rubenstein, Samara. “Russian Old Believers: Genetic Consequences of their Isolation, as Shown by Mitochondrial DNA Evidence.” PhD diss., Temple University, 2007. 110 pp.

Scherr, Stefanie. ‘As Soon As We Got Here We Lost Everything’: the Migration Memories and Religious Lives of the Old Believers in Australia. 2013. 345 pp. Full text pdf is available via Swinburne Research Bank Swinburne Theses Collection

Simon, Pimen; Jurewicz, Theodore; Cuiba, German. Drevnepravoslavnyi molitvennik. Old Orthodox Prayer Book. Erie, PA: Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ (Old Rite), 1986. 406 pp.

Song, Eun-ji. Discourse and Style in Old Believer Lives: Referential Strategies and Topic Marking in the Lives of Avvakum, Epifanij, and Bojarynja Morozova. 1997. xii, 264 leaves. PhD diss., University of California, Los Angeles.

Waldron, Peter. “The Crisis of Religious Toleration in Imperial Russia: Bibikov’s System for the Old Believers, 1841-1855.” History 101, no. 348 (December 2016): 803–4. doi:10.1111/1468-229X.12312.

Woodson, Lisa. “The Legend of Kitezh in Russian Literature.” PhD diss., University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014. 250 pp.

Ziolkowski, Margaret. Tale of Boriarynia Morozova: A Seventeenth-Century Religious Life. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2000. 121 pp.

Znatnov, A. V. Religious dissent in Russia: Old Believers. Leiden: IDC Publishers, 2004. 1464 microfiches. Materials in Russian and in Cyrillic; guide in English.

Filosofova, Tatiana. Christian folk poetry in the manuscript tradition of the Russian Old Believers: (based on material from manuscript collections and works published in Russia before the eighteenth century and held in the Drevlekhranilishche im. V.I Malysheva, IRLI, St Ptetersburg, Russia) = Narodnai︠a︡ dukhovnai︠a︡ poėzii︠a︡ v staroobri︠a︡dcheskoĭ rukopisnoĭ tradit︠s︡ii (po materialam sobraniĭ rukopiseĭ i staropechatnykh knig Drevlekhranilishcha im. V.I. Malysheva IRLI, Sankt-Peterburg, Rossii︠a︡). 2005. 414 pp., 124 leaves.

Fishman, Olga Mikhailovna. Religiozno-kul’turnyi fenomen karel’skogo staroobriadchestva. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2000. 487 pp.

Simon, Pimen; Jurewicz, Theodore; Cuiba, German. Drevnepravoslavnyi molitvennik. Old Orthodox Prayer Book. Erie, PA: Russian Orthodox Church of the Nativity of Christ (Old Rite), 1986. 406 pp.

Tsoi, Liubov’ Nikolaevna. Problemy raskola i narodnykh eresei v tvorchestve F. M. Dostoevskogo. Chicago: University of Chicago Library, 2013. 112 pp.