The life of the Archpriest Avvakum by himself

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Translated from the Russian by Cambridge Classicist Jane Ellen Harrison and her companion Hope Mirrlees, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum by himself is the story of Avvakum's persecution by Nikon told in first person vernacular. Published by Virginia and Leonard Woolf's Hogarth Press in 1925. The preface is by Russian critic and literary historian, D.S. Mirsky.