Hectographed Editions in the Rare Book Collection of the Library of Ekaterinburg Theological Seminary

Abstract

The article describes four storage units from the collection of rare handwritten and old-printed books of the Ekaterinburg Seminary library, containing hectographed editions. In total, presented are nine hectographed editions, six of which are included in a pamphlet volume. Almost all the editions (eight of the nine) belong to the Old Believers and date back to the early 20th century. And one edition, dated 1965, was produced by the Baptists. Eight out of nine editions are unique and currently known in a single copy. Six Old Believer hectographed editions were made in Ekaterinburg by the Old Believers of the Belokrinitsky (“Austrian”) Agreement. Publishing activities were carried out under the leadership of V. G. Usov, at the expense and in the house of the Ekaterinburg merchant G. N. Grachev. The described hectographed Old Believer publications contain important material both for the history of Old Belief in general and for the history of the Old Believers in the Urals. Printed on a hectograph in 1965, the “Collection of Spiritual Songs of Evangelical Christian Baptists” is an interesting example of religious “samizdat” of the Soviet epoch. The hectographed publications are described according to the methodology adopted in the Laboratory of Archeographic Research of the Ural Federal University (LAI UrFU). The description is followed by an index of fifth lines.

Keywords

• old believer hectographed editions
• old belief
• belokrinitsky agreement
• v. g. usov
• m. p. bezvodin
• evangelical christian baptists