RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Avvakum

1620 - 1682

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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 Cathedral on Red Square who led 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Avvakum is the 893rd most popular religious figure (down from 832nd in 2019), the 347th most popular biography from Russia (up from 363rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Russian Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Avvakum ranks 893 out of 3,187. Before him are Georg Ratzinger, Stanislaus Kostka, Fariduddin Ganjshakar, Leonard of Noblac, Ibn Qutaybah, and Saint Maurus. After him are Caesar Baronius, Robert de Sorbon, Apollinaris of Laodicea, Zeno of Verona, Agostino Casaroli, and Michael Michai Kitbunchu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1620, Avvakum ranks 5. Before him are Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, Edme Mariotte, Ninon de l'Enclos, and Aelbert Cuyp. After him are Pierre Puget, Jean Picard, Miklós Zrínyi, Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis of Cinq-Mars, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Nicholas Mercator, and John Graunt. Among people deceased in 1682, Avvakum ranks 8. Before him are Claude Lorrain, Jacob van Ruisdael, 5th Dalai Lama, Evliya Çelebi, Feodor III of Russia, and Johann Joachim Becher. After him are Jacob Kettler, Baldassare Longhena, Alessandro Stradella, Thomas Browne, Prince Rupert of the Rhine, and Jean Picard.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Avvakum ranks 347 out of 3,761. Before him are Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933), Tsarevich Ivan Ivanovich of Russia (1554), Mikhail Khodorkovsky (1963), Michael Chekhov (1891), George Ostrogorsky (1902), and Fyodor Tyutchev (1803). After him are Grand Duke Michael Nikolaevich of Russia (1832), Andrei Konchalovsky (1937), Alexander Stepanovich Popov (1859), Edith Södergran (1892), Oleg Gordievsky (1938), and Dmitry Ustinov (1908).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Russia

Among religious figures born in Russia, Avvakum ranks 7. Before him are Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia (1899), Vladimir the Great (958), Patriarch Kirill of Moscow (1946), Seraphim of Sarov (1754), Ilia II of Georgia (1933), and Sergius of Radonezh (1314). After him are Patriarch Nikon of Moscow (1605), Nadezhda von Meck (1831), Eugen Sandow (1867), Basil Fool for Christ (1468), Aleksandr Akimov (1953), and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova (1835).

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