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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. His autobiography and l
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Burning of Archpriest Avvakum, Old Believer icon, late 17th to early 18th century)
Avvakum's Exile in Siberia (1898), by Sergey Miloradovich
Feodosia Morozova
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Feodosia Prokopiyevna Morozova was a Russian noblewoman and one of the best-known partisans of the Old Believer movement.
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…the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church. His autobiography and letters to the tsar and other Old Believers such as Feodosia Morozova are considered masterpieces of 17th-century Russian literature. He was born in Grigorovo, in present-day Nizhny Novgorod. Starting in 1652 Nikon, as…
Boyaryna Morozova by Vasily Surikov is depicting Morozova's arrest by the Nikonites in 1671. As an Old Believer, she holds two fingers, rather than three, raised in the old way of making the sign of the cross.
A chapel constructed on the supposed site of Morozova's death