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In Commemoration of the 400th Anniversary of Archpriest Avvakum
From the materials of the scholarly and cultural forum “Avvakumovskie Chteniia,” held at the Institute of Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (September 28–30, 2020)

Vasily V. Kalugin. “I Am Looking for a Man” (Old Testament Prophets in the Works of Archpriest Avvakum) 7

Evgeny G. Vodolazkin. Archpriest Avvakum and the Modern Literary Process 18

Florentina V. Panchenko. A Sticheron to Archpriest Avvakum in the Chant by the Dvinsky Mentor Daniil Mikhailov 26

Svetlana A. Semiachko. “The Right Hand is Lying on the Chest, as if Blessing …” Legends of the Blessing Hand of a Saint in the Context of the Struggle of the Ofcial Russian Church with the Old Believers 51

Fr. Alexey Lopatin. Theological Courses as an Activity of the Old Believer Brotherhood Named after Archpriest Avvakum in Leningrad in the 1920s 70

Georges Nivat. The “Spirit of Kerzhenets” at the Marx–Engels Institute 85

Maxim A. Maximov. Siberian Manuscripts on Birch Bark in the Collection of M. A. Maximov 93

Modern Literature

Aleksandr A. Shaikin. A Hagiographic Hero in a Novelistic Narrative: Laurus by Eugene Vodolazkin (Part One) 98

List of Abbreviations 149

Our Authors 150