Fanatical inhabitants of Chernobyl? The image of the 19th-century city in the texts of Lavrenty Pochilievich and Konstantin Paustovsky

The article is an attempt to reconstruct the socio-religious life of inhabitants Chernobyl and its external image in last decades Russian Empire on basis analysis texts by Lavrenty Pochilievich Konstantin Paustovsky. multicultural character 19th century was a result intolerant policy authorities as well town's geographic economic location. Chernobyl's Jewish Christian residents (Orthodox, Old Believers Roman Catholics) were example symbiosis conditions autocratic empire, which at end Tsarist Russia. History shows that for centuries city has been reservoir tolerance refuge communities persecuted reasons religious prejudice. At same time, retained eclectic appearance provincial shtetl typical right-bank Ukraine, with own customs, differences mental diversity.