«А теперь всё по-другому...» – что изменилось в жизни старообрядцев? (на примере поэтических произведений староверки старшего поколения августовского региона)
„And now everything is different...” – what has changed in Old Believers’ life? (based on poetic works of the representative of the older generation of Old Believers from Augustów County)

Summary/Abstract: Old Believers living in the village of Gabowe Grądy have always been a profoundly believing community, for whom tradition, faith and their language — the Central Russian dialect, were extremely important. They knew and preserved all the rituals and traditions associated with their culture. However, today we can observe, that more and more young people do not want to follow the traditions of their grandfathers — they do not want to use the traditional dialect, do not obey fasts, marry people from outside of the community, from other religious groups. An Old Believer of the older generation wrote about those changes in her poems, which still remain in memory of the villagers.

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