The monograph examines the history of the emergence and sociocultural features of the Tomsk-Chulym taiga monasteries of the Old Believers of strange consent. The paper focuses on the problem of self-preservation of closed skete communities in conditions of macrosocial modernization processes. The monograph introduces into scientific circulation a complex of texts created by Siberian Old Believers. The book is addressed to specialists in the history of the Old Believers, the history of Old Believer books, as well as to everyone interested in Russian history and culture.