Mikhail M. Yakushev Travels to the Ottoman Empire of Russian Pilgrim-Writers in the Last Quarter of the 18th Century– the First Quarter of the 19th Century

Abstract

Pilgrimage diaries written by Russian Orthodox pilgrims during their journeys to the holy cities on the territory of the Ottoman Empire are a valuable and informative source of information about the socio-economic and ethnocultural life of the Near East. The monastic metochia of the Jerusalem Patriarchate in Jaffa and Ramle, as well as the Patriarchal monastery in Jerusalem, were responsible for accommodating of Russian Orthodox pilgrims. The Russian diplomatic mission in Constantinople provided all possible assistance to Russian worshippers in the Holy Land. The establishment of the Russian vice-consulate in Jaffa marked the first step toward the institutionalization and development of Russian Orthodox pilgrimage to Jerusalem.

Keywords

Russian pilgrims, Holy Land, Ottoman Empire, Sublime Porte, Ivan Veshnyakov, Ilya Sysoev, Pyotr Khostov, Kir Bronnikov, Yakim Vasilyev, Yakov Rahmanov

For Citation

Yakushev M.M. Travels to the Ottoman Empire of Russian Pilgrim-Writers in the Last Quarter of the 18th Century — the First Quarter of the 19th Century // The Historical Reporter. 2025. Vol. 53. P. 260–281. DOI: 10.35549/HR.2025.2025.53.006

Mikhail M. Yakushev

Ph.D. in History, First Secretary of the Historical and Documentary Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Моscow, Russia.
e-mail: mmyakushev456@gmail.com
SPIN-код: 8178-3806
AuthorID: 875714

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