Phonetic Russisms in the Moscow Editions of the Menaion 17th - the First Half of the 18th Century

The article deals with the question of the origin of phonetic Russisms in the modern New Church Slavonic Menaion. The study of the corresponding material of old printed Moscow editions of the 17th – first half of the 18th century shows that in some points of the text there were Russisms from the beginning (they are attested in the first printed menaion of 1607–1610 and in the menaion of 1619–1630), in other points Russisms are used starting from certain editions. In the latter case, the appearance of Russisms may correlate with the new (patriarch Ioakim’s) edition of the text, but this correlation is not obligatory: Russisms may also appear in editions containing the text of the old edition. In some cases Russisms are found only in editions of the first half of the 18th century. In addition, in a number of points of the text Russisms are absent throughout the period under consideration, which implies that the text of the Menaion could be subjected to a certain russification from the second half of the 18th  to the end of the 19th century. The paper suggests that different factors or their combinations contributed to the appearance and consolidation of certain phonetic Russisms in the Menaion, in particular: the influence on the Church Slavonic text of the language of editors; uncritical copying of certain texts from previous editions due to their authority and use; lexicalization.