RUSSIAN SAINTS IN POPULAR ENGRAVINGS: TEXTS AND THEIR ORIGIN (PART 2)

The article is the second part of a study devoted to the texts placed on engraved images of Russian saints. The texts under study belong to different genres and include extracts from saints’ lives, various prayer texts (troparia, kontakia, prayers), stories about miracles occurring near relics, unique historical references providing encyclopedic information, extracts from writings by Russian ascetics themselves. The article studies the texts featured on the engraved images of John the Hairy, Macarius of Unzha, Nilus of Stolobny Island, Peter of the Horde, Sergius of Radonezh, Theodore, David and Constantine of Yaroslavl, Theodosius of Totma. It establishes a connection between the texts placed on engraved images, and printed liturgical books as well as iconography. The article also identifies the rather diverse sources on which the authors of the engraved images relied. These sources include not only liturgical books and works of ancient Russian literature, but also state decrees. The research material was constituted by engraved sheets from the collection of D. A. Rovinsky, stored in the Department of Prints and Drawings of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, and by collections of popular engravings from the collections of V. I. Dahl and A. V. Olsufiev, stored in the Russian National Library.