The Life Written by Himself
Title | The Life Written by Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Archpriest Avvakum |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2021-07-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0231552491 |
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—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. 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. One of the first Russian-language autobiographies and works of any sort to make use of colloquial Russian, 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 The Life Written by Himself is not only an important historical document but also an emotionally charged and surprisingly conversational self-portrait of a crucial figure in a tumultuous time.
Archpriest Avvakum, the Life Written by Himself
Title | Archpriest Avvakum, the Life Written by Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 294 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Life Written by Himself
Title | The Life Written by Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Archpriest Avvakum Petrov |
Publisher | |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2020-09-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780231198080 |
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.
The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum
Title | The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum PDF eBook |
Author | Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Old Believers |
ISBN |
The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum
Title | The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum PDF eBook |
Author | Avvakum Petrovich (Protopope) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1963 |
Genre | Old Believers |
ISBN |
My Fellow Prisoners
Title | My Fellow Prisoners PDF eBook |
Author | Mikhail Khodorkovsky |
Publisher | ABRAMS |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2015-02-24 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1468311611 |
The Russian oil mogul and activist offers reflections on his decades-long incarceration under Putin in this “illuminating and brave” prison memoir (The Washington Post). Mikhail Khodorkovsky was Russia’s most successful businessman—and an outspoken critic of the Kremlin. As his oil company Yukos revived the Russian oil industry, Khodorkovsky began sponsoring programs to encourage civil society and fight corruption. Then he was arrested at gunpoint. Sentenced to ten years in a Siberian penal colony on fraud and tax evasion charges in 2003, Khodorkovsky was put on trial again in 2010 and sentenced to fourteen years on new charges that contradicted the previous ones. While imprisoned, Khodorkovsky fought for the rights of his fellow prisoners, going on hunger strike four times. After he was pardoned in 2013, he vowed to continue fighting for prisoners’ rights, and this book is dedicated to that work. A moving portrait of the prisoners Khodorkovsky met, My Fellow Prisoners is an eye-opening account of Russia’s brutal prison system. “Vivid, humane and poignant” —Financial Times
The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself
Title | The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by Himself PDF eBook |
Author | Avvakum (Petrovi) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 1963 |
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