Pigin, A. V ‘TREE GROWS FROM THE ROOT’. IVAN NIKIFOROVICH ZAVOLOKO AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS IN KARELIA. Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2021;43(2):77–84. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2021.587


Old Believers in the Russian North

‘TREE GROWS FROM THE ROOT’. IVAN NIKIFOROVICH ZAVOLOKO AND HIS CORRESPONDENTS IN KARELIA

Pigin
A. V 		Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Keywords:
Old Belief
Vyg Old Believers’ Community
epistolary genre
poetry of Karelia
Ivan N. Zavoloko		 Summary: The article analyzes the correspondence of the famous figure of the XX century old believers Ivan Nikiforovich Zavoloko (1897–1984) with the staff of the State Museum of the Karelian ASSR, as well as local historians, poets and scholars of Karelia V. P. Yershov, I. A. Kostin, Yu. V. Linnik and E. G. Soini. The research material is more than 30 letters from the 1960s – 1980s, stored in the National Museum of the Republic of Karelia, the archive of the Riga Grebenshchikov Old Believers Community, the Depository named after V. I. Malyshev at the Institute of Russian literature (Pushkin House) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and in the personal archive of E. G. Soini. The subject of discussion in the letters is the history and culture of the Vyg Community and the Old Belief in general, issues of collecting and studying antiquities, museum work, literary creativity, scientific and cultural life. The article covers also the history of the poet I. A. Kostin’s creation of a poem dedicated to the protopop Avvakum. Correspondence provides new valuable material for the study of the personality, activities and range of interests of I. N. Zavoloko. The conclusion is made about the influence of I. N. Zavoloko on the representatives of the Karelian intelligentsia in their understanding of the Old Belief and other phenomena of Russian culture.



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