The Library
1577 works catalogued century by century, from the literature the Bible was written among to the present — each with a note on what it is, why it lasted, and where to read it.
1501–1600
1 work
1551
Old Church Slavonic
Stoglav
The Council of Moscow
A hundred rulings on icon painting, clerical conduct, folk customs, and liturgical practice, including the two-fingered sign of the cross and the double alleluia.
1601–1700
2 works
1666–1667
Russian
The Council of Moscow
The council that deposed Patriarch Nikon, confirmed his liturgical corrections, and anathematised those who kept the old rites and the two-fingered cross.
c. 1672–1675
Russian
Avvakum Petrov · 1620/21–1682
An Old Believer priest's account of exile in Siberia, his wife stumbling in the mud and asking how long it will go on, and his refusal to accept Nikon's corrected books.
3 of 1577 works