Characteristic features of the hierarchical Divine liturgy in old ritualist hieratica housed in Russian collections

The article is devoted to the study of liturgical documents of the Old Ritualist (Old Believer) movement, which are important sources for understanding the structure of the hierarchical Divine Liturgy. Representatives of the so-called Old Rite, that is, the rite used before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in the middle of the 17th century, traditionally state their strict adherence to the use of the pre-reformed liturgical books. However, the pre-reform hierarchical order of the Liturgy is a complicated case, since the Old Believers themselves did not have their own bishop for a long time, and, when one was obtained, he was accepted into communion from the reformed rite. In this article, based on examples from liturgical documents of the largest Russian Old Believer Center in the Rogozhsky Cemetery an atempt is made to trace the origin of the texts and their correlation with the pre-reform tradition.