Изображения комплекса зданий Северного подворья Бэйгуань Русской православной миссии в Пекине

Abstract

This article is devoted to the study of the archival materials related to the description and visual representation of buildings on the territory of the Northern Compound of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijing. Drawings of the Northern Compound, plans and facades of its buildings, as well as descriptions of all Beiguan buildings, stored in various scientific institutions in Moscow and St. Petersburg, are unique, as they represent a single set of materials. All of these materials were collected in Beijing by the bailiff of the 11th Russian Orthodox Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing, M.V. Ladyzhensky in 1831. During his trip to Beijing, Ladyzhensky managed to collect rare information about China, archival materials belonging to his pen include written reports to the Asiatic Department, daily notes, maps and plans, route sheets, etc., unfortunately, all these materials have not yet been published. Their identification made it possible not only to obtain new information about the appearance, interior decoration and purpose of buildings, which, unfortunately, did not survive to this day, but also made it possible to attribute and introduce into scientific circulation new visual materials on the history of the Orthodox mission in China, stored at the MAE RAS.