The reason for the division of Russian church THE XVII century became the correction of traditional obryadovo-bogosluzhebnoy practice. And it began from the introduction of changes in bogosluzhebnuyu literature. The enemies of reforms forewent the adoption of the corrected books. This first book, Sluzhebnik, which entirely reflected patriarch Nikon's innovations, appeared in 1655; however, the supporters of "old faith", in majority their, they consider it true of the books, printed only up to 1652 inclusively, since already in the publications 1653 begin tyuey poyavlyatsya the changes, which characterize the direction of reforms (for example, psalter 11.02.1653). The absolute monopoly of state to the printing did not make possible for old believers to publish the literature, which answered their spiritual demands. This led to the fact that for the elongation of half century, in the period of the formation of motion as oppositional social and political force, in the period of the formation of its ideology, the Old Faith was forced to bypass with pre-reformist publications, supplementing with their compositions, rewritten by hand. However, the reduction of the fund for donikonovskikh publications in connection with the wear in the process of rotation, and also the goal-directed policy of government for their withdrawal, the labor expense of the reproduction of the books via correspondence forced the adherents of old times to search for ways to the printed method of preparing the books.