The girl's album is a studied phenomenon of written folklore, which has become a characteristic detail for the culture of children and adolescents of the 20th century. This article examines a poetry book that was written by an Old Believer girl as a teenager. The author of the article described the content and form, as well as the pragmatics of the functioning of this poetry book while working in the complex expedition of the Moscow State University and A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences to the Republic of Moldova and Transnistria in January 2020. Spiritual poems accompanied byvague or five-line notation, as well as songs based on poems by Russian poets, as well as lyrical Russian folk songs, are present in the repertoire of the collection. For comparison, a collection of Old Believer spiritual poems from the personal collection of historian A.I. Yakovlev, kept in the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is given. In comparison it can be concluded that the handwritten collection of a young girl has the features of both collections of spiritual poems of the Old Believers and the features of girls' songbooks, common to this phenomenon of childhood culture in both religious and secular environments.
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