On the Question of Stylistic Features of Modern Martyr's Lives (Based on the Material of the «lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Xx Century of the Moscow Diocese»)

This article presents preliminary considerations on the stylistic features of modern martyr's lives, based on the material of the 8-volume edition of the Lives of the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian XX century of the Moscow Diocese. In these texts, the sources used are abundantly quoted (official resolutions, interrogation protocols, letters, etc.). The style of the original text is religious-ecclesiastical; the styles of quotations are official-business, colloquial, also religious-ecclesiastical. Thus, modern martyr's lives are a complex stylistic fusion.