The cultural heritage of Russian abroad in the dialogue of civilizations of the XV - early XX centuries

The book explores the Russian cultural presence in the world on the basis of the analysis of Rossi - an array of foreign materials related to Russia (historical, socio -political, scientific, religious, literary, artistic), the authorship of which belonged to both foreigners who were in Russia and wrote about it, so Representatives of Russian abroad, who was studying the Fatherland in a foreign land. Rossika is a large direction of scientific knowledge determined by exteriority - a combination of foreign materials about Russia in its historical, geopathic and cultural boundaries, formed mainly beyond its borders, but associated with its authorship or content, regardless of their language and nationality of the Creator. The chronological framework of the monograph cover the period of the history of Moscow and Imperial Russia, from the beginning of its integration with Euro -Atlantic civilization and the origin of the bilateral process of creating foreign enclaves within the country, and beyond its borders of the Russian colonies, and until the end of the existence of the Russian Empire