Orthodox reader study (the experience of the cultural and educational activities of the Western Siberian eparchies at the turn of the 20th century)
The article is devoted to one of the topical fields of Siberian bibliology - cultural and educational activities of the Russian Orthodox Church. The author analyses the ways of forming the book culture and broadening readers' outlook in the three eparchies of Western Siberia at the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries. The article describes how the church organised people's education, Sunday readings, how church libraries were supplied with books. Publishing activities of the Church in Tomsk, Tobolsk and Omsk eparchies are elucidated. The work is intended for bibliologists, philologists, theologians and all those who are interested in the book culture.