Abstract
Korobeinikov's accounts of his 1582-1584 and 1593-1594 journeys, called Khozhdenia , were widely read in Russia for over three centuries, having become the definitive texts of Russian pilgrimage to the Holy Land. This chapter focuses on how the two Khozhdenia reflect Russia's political and religious developments in the early modern period through the conventions of the pilgrimage genre. The descriptions of the holy places are often embellished with biblical and apocryphal legends, which were meant to enhance their spiritual or mystical significance. Several locations, which were outside the Holy Land, became revered by Russian pilgrims via the Eastern Orthodox connection, particularly through Orthodox monasticism, which was inextricably connected with pilgrimage to the Holy Land. Pilgrimages to the Near East acquired a new, political significance. The goals of the state, such as the tsar's efforts to project his authority, were enhanced through his own or his envoys' pilgrimages. Keywords:Holy Land; Khozhdenia ; Korobeinikov; Orthodox monasticism; Russian pilgrims
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