ARCHAEOGRAPHIC RESEARCH IN THE FIELD OF PILGRIMAGE LITERATURE PRODUCED IN THE TIME OF PETER THE GREAT

Abstract

This is an overview of the history of archaeographic research in the field of Russian pilgrimage literature produced in the time of Peter the Great. The work, which was carried out by specialists in the 19th and early 21st centuries, led to an expansion of the source base for the study of the field. This allows us to examine issues related to the literary history of texts about pilgrimage, clarify their attribution, the date of a pilgrimage and the date when its description was written. The article reconstructs the social characteristics of readers of pilgrimage stories and attempts to describe the distinctive features of the circulation of these stories in eighteenth-century books.