Truly a Feast?
Avvakum would be given some dried meat along with 30 pounds of what for his sailing expedition?
What is Flour? (44)
Of the meat products that Avacuum came across, one of the most controversial for this time was the meat from this animal and its unborn.
What is a Horse and its Foal?
What was the major punishment that Avvakum endured?
What is Exile?
Who was Avacuum's greatest hater?
Who is Patriarch Nikon?
What drink did Patriarch Joseph allow to be served and drank for religious holidays and wedding feasts?
What is wine? (xxiv)
Among the fish species mentioned, what where the two major ones mentioned?
What are Sturgeon and Salmon? (45 and 46)
When Avacuum became the caretaker of a muskateer from Moscow, what would the muskateer ask Avacuum to eat?
His own feces and excrement. (78)
Avvakum ,however, was not only the one being punished, but also dulled out punishments like this for a person rioting in his church.
What is Lashing? (21)
Who is this about?
"the devil had stirred them up over nothing. And when I returned, I beat them both and offended the grievously, from a heavy heart."
Who are the Archpriestess and her maid, the widow Fetinya? (80)
Among the liquids and drinks mentioned in Avacuum's narritive, what is the most important one throughoout his story?
What is Water/Holy Water?
What food did Avvakum feed the Cossacks?
What os Porridge? (24)
While in a monastery, Avacuum describes a person eating what in the still warm oven while naked?
What are Bread Crumbs? (55)
name one of the two brutal mutilations that Priest Lazar faced. (hint: Язык)
What is cutting his tongue and/or hand off? (69)
Who stated this:
“How do you cross yourself, peasant?” And he made answer with humble wisdom:“I believe and cross myself, conforming my fingers in the manner of my confessor, the Archpriest Avvakum.”
Who is Pilate? (68)
What liquid-like food was given to Avvakum in the dungeon?
What is Cabbage Soup? (18)
Avvakum ate little meat in his story, but he would specificallcy state he ate this tree dwelling animal?
What is a squirrel? (42)
How was Fyodor, the fool in Christ executed?
What is the gallows?
When Avvakum was order back to Moscow, what was he ordered into?
What is a Monastery?
Who saved Avacuum from execution?
Who was the Tsarina? (58)
What were the Cossacks favorite drink?
What is being swept away and drowned in water? (39)
Along with the hen, Avvakum would have other livestock. What were the other two kinds of livestock?
What are cows and sheep? (44)
Other than Nikon being the anti-christ in Avacuum's eyes, who did he see just as often as the Tsar and Nikon? Perhaps the father of Nikon?
Who is the Devil?
Who was punished for their trip to ask Avacuum to bless and pray with him, setting off a series of events where a pricess would have her son killed and tortured?
Who is Prince Ivan? (58)
I am speechless
Who is Lazar?
Other than water, what is the companion to his holy water?
What is oil?