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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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    Novgorod Nikon and Archpriests Ivan Nerov [ru], Stephen Vonifatiev [ru], 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 statesman...
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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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    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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  • Fortea (born 1968) Vince Lampert (born 1963) Chad Ripperger (born 1964) Avvákum Petróv (1621–1682) Christopher Neil-Smith (1920–1995) Bill Subritzky (1925–2015)...
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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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