Discussions on the percentage of the old believers

The article investigates the attitude to the collection of percent in the economic ethics of the Old Believers. It considers the contradiction between the condemnation of the loan interest in the Orthodox tradition and the economic practice of the merchants and trustees of the Old Believers’ communities. Despite the use of loan interest in the practice of the Old Rite merchants, the Old Believers preserved the Christian spirit of the interest ban. The article is based on working through the archive texts of the statutes, letters and epistles.