The Number 1666 in Russian Book Culture of the Mid to Third Quarter of the 17th Century
By T.A. Oparina, Novosibirsk. Calculations regarding the date of the end of the world or the final falling away to the Antichrist in 1666 were extraordinarily widespread in Old Believer literature and have not lost their relevance in it even to the present day. Let us attempt to trace the sources of Old Believer theories….