The publication of Zhitie (Life) in 1860,…

The publication of Zhitie (Life) in 1860, the autobiography of martyred Old Believer archpriest Avvakum, a Russian protopope of Kazan Cathedral on Red Square who led the opposition to Patriarch Nikon's reforms of the Russian Orthodox Church, will influence such later Russian novelists as Fyodor Dostoevsky, Ivan Turgenev and Alexander Solzhenitsyn.