The concept of "mentioning the dead” (in the Old Believers’ Sinodik from Wojnowo)

In the article updating the concept of memory was analysed through its material expression in the text. The analytical material consisted of a special kind of religious literature, sinodik, which is an expression of remembrance about the dead and was used to mention them in prayers. With the application of frame analysis and statistic methods of research an artificial text was delineated, which is the main form of updating the concept of memory in the Sinodik from Wojnowo. In turn, it allowed to differentiate a new subconcept from the latter one, i.e. mentioning the dead in prayers