Orthodox Bogoglasnik - the connecting thread of Western and Eastern Slavia

Abstract

The article is devoted to the history of the appearance and distribution of the mass folk book bogoglasnik, which became essentially a phenomenal literary phenomenon of the 18th-21st centuries, linking and uniting the Christian cultural and religious traditions of Western Slavia and Eastern Slavia. The history of the Orthodox Bogoglasnik has hardly been studied until now. The development of the Orthodox tradition of the Bogoglasnik coincided with the era of the Slavic Renaissance and the establishment of universal school education. This contributed to the gradual emergence of a large number of new writers of spiritual song and the emergence of an entire industry of their correspondence, both manually and through various available means of replication. Over time, the bogoglasnik turned into a national book of spiritual everyday life and became a kind of folk catechism of our days for millions of Eastern Slavs, mainly Ukrainians and Belarusians.