Aavakum Art

I was directed by a reader to a site called Aavakum Art by Felix G. Kuehn that holds some quite amazing drawings. The work is quite remarkable in both its intricacy and scope, and I hope you take a few minutes to browse the gallery. Here is a short explanation of the gallery's name and a link to Archpriest Avvakum Petrovich Kondrat’ev's original text.

Why the name Avvakum art? The autobiography of the seventeenth-century Russian Orthodox Archpriest Avvakum Petrovich Kondrat’ev is one of the most remarkable documents I have ever read. This website is named in his honour because I believe his life deserves to be much more widely known – not only among Eastern Christians – but among everyone fascinated by such virtues as moral courage, loyalty and perseverance. These were three of the many extraordinary qualities of his complex personality. Although the following synopsis will be of interest, I warmly encourage you to read his autobiography, The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum Written by Himself.

Click here to link directly to The Life of the Archpriest Avvakum