Avvakum Petrov was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. He was born in Grigorovo, in present-day Nizhny Novgorod, in 1620 or 1621, and died on 14 April 1682. Nikon's reforms, begun in 1652, were meant mostly to bring the Russian Church into line with the other Eastern Orthodox Churches, and Avvakum rejected them as a corruption of the Russian Church. For his opposition he was repeatedly imprisoned and exiled, first to Tobolsk in Siberia, then to Mezen, and in 1667 to Pustozyorsk above the Arctic Circle, where he spent the last fourteen years of his life imprisoned in a pit or dugout before he and his accomplices were executed by being burned in a log house. His autobiography, The Life Written by Himself, and his letters to the tsar and to other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of seventeenth-century Russian literature.
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First he was exiled to Siberia, to the city of Tobolsk, and partook in an exploration expedition under Afanasii Pashkov to the Chinese border.
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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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He was born in Grigorovo, in present-day Nizhny Novgorod.
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He and his accomplices were finally executed by being burned in a log house.
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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
Works Attributed: The Life of Archpriest Avvakum by Himself, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum
The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum, originally titled The Life Written By Himself (Russian: Житие́ протопопа́ Авваку́ма, им сами́м напи́санное) is a hagiography and autobiography written by the Old Believer and protopope (archpriest) Avvakum Petrovich.
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Avvakum Petrov (Russian: Аввакум Петров; 20 November 1620/1621-14 April 1682; also spelled Awakum) was a Russian Old Believer and protopope of the Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Wikipedia (Russian)Lead, sentence beginning В старообрядчестве на протяжении
В старообрядчестве на протяжении всей его истории являлся авторитетной и знаковой фигурой и почитается как священномученик и исповедник .
Veneration and memory, sentence beginning Официальная канонизация в РДЦ
Официальная канонизация в РДЦ протопопа Аввакума состоялась на Освящённом соборе в 1988 году [ 16 ] , в Белокриницком согласии в 1917 году.
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