Na territorii sovremennoy Latvii naschityvaetsya 71 staroobryadcheskaya obshchina, ob"edinyayushchaya priblizitel'no 70 tysyach chelovek. Bol'shinstvo iz nikh prozhivaet v vostochnom regione - Latgalii. Eto osobaya religiozno-etnicheskaya gruppa russkikh, predki kotorykh ne prinyali tserkovnykh reform 1666 goda i vynuzhdeny byli bezhat' ot presledovaniya. Dlya latviyskikh staroverov, zhivushchikh v usloviyakh polietnicheskogo i polikonfessional'nogo obshchestva, aktual'nym byl i ostaetsya vopros sokhraneniya istinnoy very i samoidentichnosti. V stat'yakh, sostavlyayushchikh sbornik, avtor, analiziruya material, sobrannyy na territorii Daugavpilsskogo regiona v 2011-2013 godakh, poeticheskie teksty dukhovnogo soderzhaniya, pytaetsya opredelit', chto lezhit v osnove mirovozzreniya latviyskikh staroverov. Kniga prednaznachena dlya studentov gumanitarnykh fakul'tetov, uchenykh-filologov, istorikov, kul'turovedov.