Avvakum
AVVAKUM (1620/1–1682), Russian Orthodox arch-priest; founding father of the Old Believers; martyr. Avvakum was ordained to the priesthood at the age of twenty-two, serving in the area o...
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Archpriest Avvakum Petrovich should be numbered among the most commanding, self-assured, and influential figures of seventeenth-century Russian culture. By conviction a profoundly conservative man, he...
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Avvakum
Avvakum (Petrovich)