Res Humanitariae

The article discusses the characteristics of the literary language used in Old Believer Russian folk pictures found during field investigations in the lower Yenisey river in the Republic of Tuva. Modern folk pictures are considered as a complete artistic whole in which all the visual tools convey the characteristics of the ideology of the Old Believer traditional culture and reflection of the modern world. Modern Russian folk pictures draw image and text from icons, manuscripts and printed books, wherein the contradictory tendencies of modern art are traced postmodernism with the elements of interpretation of ancient art.