The lift of the new wave of Old Faith book publishing is fallen to the 60's the xix century it it coincided since the start of "people's movement" members, that activated the activity of the police, committee on the affairs of press, censorial organs, "because of" to what in the archives of this epoch were put off numerous matters for the disclosure of the secret Old Faith printing houses, which covered Moscow and its environments with thick network.
If in the first period of Old Faith printing by owners, by the leaseholders of printing houses, the customers of the books were merchants, then into the third - these were mainly peasants and petty bourgeois. They had available, as a rule, small printing houses with one-two printing presses, which in the literal sense find in the well disguised undergrounds. Often for the police it was possible to reveal them only as a result of denunciation. Rapidly was formed the network of spreaders. Bookbinders played important role in this system. They took in the printers of the book not only for the binding, but also their significant parties for the realization. Peasants dealt also with binding in majority their. Were rare the cases of publishing the books small print runs not for the abstract market, but to the concrete order. Dispatch claims to the center of Russia from the most different distant regions of the country.
In of last fourth XIX v. among the old believers received wide acceptance the production of the books by hectographic method, on the duplicating machine and by other methods of circulation.
It is not possible to consider the creation of printing houses, hectographic workshops, lithographs the absolutely independent affair of their owners. There is reason to believe that the activity in publication and propagation of the Old Faith books was coordinated. All participants in this process were connect together, and some organizers of printing houses, possibly, obtained material aid.
The distinctive special feature of the printed production of this period became the appearance of original author's compositions with the claim on the genre of the historical study, about directivity of which speak their names: the "historical study, which uses to the justification for old believers" (in three volumes) V.M. Karlowicz, the "truth of the staroobryadstvuyushchey hierarchy against the vozvodimykh to it charges" OF A.V. Of shvetsova, etc. many of these compositions were printed by civil type. Naturally, they could not be pleased to synod, but some prohibitive measures it was already difficult to manage. Therefore to the arena of militant struggle with the Old Faith it entered missions. The most important place in this fight was diverted to the orthodox brotherhood of holy Peter. The journal "fraternal word", which was being published in THE XIX century edited by N. subbotina, much attention gave to the critical illumination of internal events in the life of Old Faith and to the most detailed selection of the literature let out by it, naturally, in the negative key.