Show Notes
Send us Fan Mail Today, we cover the autobiography of the Archpriest Avvakum Petrov, the man who was one of the leaders of the schismatic Old Believers, born from the denial of the reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church by Patriarch Nikon in the mid-17th century. Support the show
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