Preface
Introduction by Kenneth N. Brostrom
The Life Written by Himself
Notes
References

Archpriest Avvakum's autobiography is a record of his life, ecclesiastical career, painful exile, religious persecution, and imprisonment, written in the 1660s and '70s from a cell in an Arctic village where the archpriest had been imprisoned by the tsar.

Archpriest Avvakum, translated by Kenneth N. Brostrom