The life written by himself /:

"Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. And a religious reform movement intended to purify spiritual life and provide for the needy had...

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1. Verfasser: Avvakum Petrovich, Protopope, 1620 or 1621-1682 (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Brostrom, Kenneth N., 1939- (ÜbersetzerIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Russian
Veröffentlicht: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021]
Schriftenreihe:Russian library (Columbia University. Press)
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Zusammenfassung:"Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar eclipse and comet appeared in the sky, causing panic. 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. The autobiography of Archpriest Avvakum 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. It is also a salvo in a contest about whether to follow the old Russian Orthodox liturgy or import Greek rites and practices. These concerns touched every stratum of Russian society-and for Avvakum, represented an urgent struggle between good and evil. Avvakum's autobiography has been a cornerstone of Russian literature since it first circulated among religious dissidents. Its language and style served as a model for writers such as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, and Gorky. The Life Written by Himself is not only an important historical document but also an emotionally charged and surprisingly conversational self-portrait of a crucial figure in a tumultuous time"--
Beschreibung:Translated from the original Russian into English.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (lvii, 145 pages).
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:0231552491
9780231552493

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