The Life Written by Himself

Archpriest Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and '70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction by Kenneth N. Brostrom
The Life Written by Himself
Notes
References

About the author

Avvakum Petrovich (1620/1–1682) was born near Nizhny Novgorod to a priest and a nun. He became a leader in the Old Believers movement. He wrote the earliest version of his autobiography between 1669 and 1672 while imprisoned in Pustozersk, and was burned as a heretic in 1682.

Kenneth N. Brostrom (1939–2020) was associate professor of Russian at Wayne State University.

Summary

Archpriest Avvakum’s autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and ’70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.

Product details

• Authors: Avvakum Petrov
• Assisted by: Michael Gluck (Editor), Kenneth Brostrom (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9780231198097
• ISBN: 978-0-231-19809-7
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 215 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Russian Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Russia, FICTION / Literary, Fiction, Autobiography: historical, political & military, Autobiography: historical, political and military, Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe), USSR, Soviet Union, C 1600 To C 1700, c 1660 to c 1669, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Russian & Soviet, c 1670 to c 1679