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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...
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    of Novgorod Nikon and Archpriests Ivan Nerov, Stephen Vonifatiev, and Avvakum, with secular support from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and his supporters...
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    indicating a "cleaving-apart". The leaders of the Old Believers, including Avvakum Petrov and Ivan Neronov, were originally members of the Zealots of Piety...
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  • Avvakum (Russian: Аввакум) is a Russian Christian male first name. It is derived from Ἀμβακοὺμ (Ambakoum), the Koine Greek form, as rendered in the Septuagint...
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    were harshly persecuted. One such old believer was Avvakum "the leader of the old Believers". Avvakum "had his wife and children buried alive in front of...
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    in Siberia. It is found in the memoirs of the exiled Russian churchman Avvakum. It was brought to Western Europe twenty years later by the Dutch traveler...
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    years before being burned alive. Avvakum is an author of about sixty literary works, including the Life of Avvakum, most of which were written in Pustozyorsk...
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    details in Dumas (1843), pp. 424–426 Alan Wood describes Avvakum's execution as follows: Avvakum and three fellow prisoners were led from their icy cells...
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  • administered on behalf of her son Ivan. During the Raskol, because Archpriest Avvakum was her confessor, Morozova joined the Old Believers' movement and secretly...
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  • Switzerland Basil the Physician († 1118), by Emperor Alexius I Comnenus; heresy Avvakum Petrovich (1620–1682), by Tsar Feodor III of Russia; combating the Starovery...
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    Fyodor Rtishchev, Abbot Ivan Neronov of the Kazan Cathedral, Protopope Avvakum, and others. In 1649, Nikon became metropolitan of Great Novgorod. He was...
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    agricultural province. The government also used it as a place of exile, sending Avvakum, Dostoevsky, and the Decemberists, among others, to work camps in the region...
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    century, when such notable people as Artamon Matveyev, Vasily Galitzine, and Avvakum were exiled there. The spot where the latter was burnt at the stake is...
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    Ozero Baikal). This usage is attested already in the Life of Protopope Avvakum (1621–1682), and on the late-17th-century maps by Semyon Remezov. It is...
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  • patronymic, itself derived from various forms of the Christian male first name Avvakum. However, it is also possible that this last name is related to the last...
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  • precipitated a great schism of the Russian Orthodox Church known as the Raskol. Avvakum and other leading Old Believers were brought to the synod from their prisons...
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  • Tadig Kozh (Placide Guillermic) (1788-1873) Vince Lampert Chad Ripperger Avvákum Petróv (1621–1682) Christopher Neil-Smith (1920–1995) Bill Subritzky (1925-2015)...
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    the story of Boyarina Morozova (d.1675), from the account of archbishop Avvakum and inspired by the painting Boyarina Morozova by Vasily Surikov. Neue...
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    included most of the works by Maximus the Greek. In August 1653, archpriest Avvakum was held under arrest at this monastery. Andronikov Monastery has been...
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  • execution of Eastern Orthodox heretics do exist, such as the execution of Avvakum in 1682. From the late 11th century onward, heresy once again came to be...
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    by the church and the state. The chief opposition figure, the protopope Avvakum, was burned at the stake. The split afterwards became permanent, and many...
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  • Luxemburg, 1699). A prominent ideologue of Russian Old Believers and a writer, Avvakum (died 1682) was accused by official Orthodox Church and by fellow Old Believers...
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    the Muscovite patriarchate, had won the upper hand over his adversary Avvakum, resulting in an intra-Russian schism (raskol) between the Reformed Orthodoxy...
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  • (Abasha) and "Аба́шка" (Abashka)—the diminutive forms of the first name Avvakum—although other theories explaining the origins of these nicknames also...
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  • un-meritocratic system of making political appointments. 14 April Raskol: Avvakum, the most prominent leader of the Old Believer movement, was burned at...
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  • Moscow and All Russia), archpriests Ivan Neronov of the Kazan Cathedral, Avvakum Petrov, Loggin, Lazar, and Daniil. The members of the Zealots of Piety...
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  • itself is derived from various forms of the Christian male first name Avvakum. Boris Abakumov, Soviet Korean War flying ace Dmitry Abakumov (born 1989)...
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    Archpriest Avvakum—an outstanding novelty autobiography written by the one of leaders of the 17th-century religious dissidents Old Believers Avvakum—is considered...
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    Amur River. Beketov returned to Tobolsk in 1661 where he met Protopope Avvakum and probably died in the same year. Lantzeff, George V., and Richard A...
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    Православная религиозная организация: 70–77. Pascal, Pierre (1963). "Avvakum et les débuts de Raskol". Etudes sur l'histoire, l'economie et la sociologie...
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