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Beautifiers of Russian Palestine: Vasily Paskhin

open access: yesVestnik Slavianskikh Kul’tur [Bulletin of Slavic Cultures], 2022
Russian religious art of the 19th century in the Soviet years did not correspond to the official ideological direction, in connection with which many of these works were destroyed, and the names of their authors were forgotten. In this sense, those works of Russian artists that have been preserved in the churches and metochions of the Holy Land allow ...
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Manufacturing Russian Attachments to Palestine (1894–1903)

2023
Abstract This chapter, like the ones before and after it, explores how Russia established the trans-imperial Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society, with institutions connecting villages and towns across the tsarist empire to the Ottoman Holy Land.
Elena Astafieva, Eileen Kane
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Russianizing Palestine

2023
Abstract In the decades after the Crimean War (1853–1856), Russia bought up land and buildings in Ottoman Syria and Palestine to establish an Orthodox Christian missionary presence. This chapter, and the two that follow in this volume, illuminate the work that went into this state-sponsored project, culminating in the tsarist government ...
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Empire and Orient: Baha’is in Russian Transcaspia and Palestine

2022
In the final three chapters of this study, attention returns to the major issues raised in the Introduction: the rationale for deployment of Orientalist discourse in Baha’i writing and Baha’is’ connections to empire. In Chapter 6 two zones of contact are probed: Tsarist Transcaspia and British Palestine. In the former, Russian orientalists engaged with
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Russian Lands in Palestine in the Context of Soviet Diplomacy

ISTORIYA, 2023
The article deals with the issue of the so-called Russian property in Palestine. The author described what steps Soviet diplomats have taken since 1922 with regard to the properties that belonged before 1917 to the imperial government, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society.
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Sources of Financing for the Construction of Russian Palestine (1857‒1864)

OOO "Zhurnal "Voprosy Istorii", 2021
The article introduces documents of the Russian State Historical Archives into scientific circulation. On their basis, the sources of financing for the construction of Russian Palestine are traced: donations, collection of money, funds from the budget, money from the Russian Society of Shipping and Trade, assistance from the imperial family.
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