Creative works of amateur authors are significant in the reflection of ethnic culture in the provincial periodicals. In the publications of “Kurskie eparhialinie vedomosti” (“Kursk diocesan Gazette”) the fact of existence and dynamic development of the clergy subculture in the Kursk province was fixed. The study of peculiarities concerning the concept of “a Small Motherland” in the poetic experience of provincial authors will allow to reconstruct the important parts of the cultural space in pre-1917 Russian province and also to promote the deep understanding of provinces’ role in literary process at the end of the XIX — the beginning of the XX century.