Life Written by Himself Petrov Archpriest Avvakum
Life Written by Himself Petrov Archpriest Avvakum Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. An…
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Life Written by Himself Petrov Archpriest Avvakum
Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population.
The autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum--a leader of the Old Believers, who opposed liturgical and ecclesiastical reforms--provides a vivid account of these cataclysmic events from a figure at their center.Written in the 1660s and '70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar, Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide for the needy had become a violent political project that cleaved Russian society and the Orthodox Church in two. It is also a salvo in a contest about whether to
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