«The spiritual flower garden» («Tsvetnik duchovnyj») оf the monk and the priest Dorotheus in the context of the problem of genre typology of Old Russian collections for reading

The article is devoted to the problem of the genre typology of the Old Russian manuscript collections for reading, which were not connected with the principle of calendar structure. The existent in the science approaches to this problem are analysed. It was taken an attempt to determine the place of «The Spiritual Flower Garden» («Tsvetnik duchovnyj») оf the monk and the priest Dorotheus, one of the insufficiently explored collections of reading of the 17 th century, in the genre tradition of the Old Russian collections for reading.