Articles about the Holy Land from the history of RDM in Jerusalem. From the history of Russian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Collection of works

V.N. Khitrovo (1834-1903) occupies an honorable place in a number of Russian state and public figures, writers and scholars-orientalists, whose names with gold letters are inscribed in the history of an amazing spiritual phenomenon, called Russian Palestine. The founder and many years of the head of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society, Vasily Nikolaevich pronounced himself and as a researcher of the religious, political, cultural presence of Russia and European powers in Palestine and other countries of the Bible region, and as a historian and sociologist of the Russian pilgrimage and life of the Russian colony in Jerusalem, and As an extremely thoughtful and aware author of pilgrim essays, a popularizer of historical and scientific knowledge about the Holy Land.
Tom of the second essay assembly V. N. Elchovo is the work on the activities of the Russian spiritual mission in Jerusalem (two most important of them, "Jerusalem Question" and "History