Abstract
Siberian literature—Russian-language literature about Siberia produced by Siberians or by European Russian writers who (voluntarily or otherwise) spent time in Siberia—is a distinct phenomenon in Russian letters. It is marked by a specificity of thematic concerns and literary images that serve to define it as a special category within Russian literature as a whole. This specificity can be analyzed through an identification and description of peculiarly Siberian elements in the works of individual writers and a diachronic comparison of the writers based upon these elements. The present study will offer a contribution to such a comparison by examining The Life Written by Himself of the Archpriest Avvakum Petrovich (1620?-82),1 who spent nearly eleven years in Siberian exile.
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