Abstract

AbstractThis chapter focuses on the role of Russian institutions in Palestine before, during and after WWI. The task of the first Russian mission was the control over the distribution of Russian donations, supporting Orthodoxy against Catholic and Protestant proselytisation and organising pilgrimages. Being founded with both political and philanthropic aims, the Russian organisations in Palestine supported the local Orthodox Arab population. Along with the traditional colonial modes of “soft power” in Palestine and Greater Syria (acquiring land and organising schools), on the eve and during WWI more flexible trends appear, providing a dialogue and cooperation with both the Greek Patriarchate and the Arab party. After the revolution of 1917 the Russian presence in Palestine was reduced to a few institutions of the Russian Church Abroad, and lost its political significance.

Highlights

  • On the tradition of donations in the seventeenth century seeN. F. Kapterev, Kharakter otnoshenii Rossii k pravoslavnomu Vostoku v XVI I XVII stoletiiakh (Sergiev Posad: M. S. Elov editions, 1914); V. G. Chentsova, Ikona Iverskoi Bogomateri (Ocherki istorii grecheskoi tserkvi s Rossii v seredine XVII v. po documentam Rossiiskogo Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Drevnikh Aktov) The article is written with the support of the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research project No 19-09-41004

  • The Holy Land has been a crossroads of interests from Christian countries since the Crusades

  • It became a centre of concurrence between the European great powers and an important object of the so-called Eastern Question

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Summary

On the tradition of donations in the seventeenth century see

N. F. Kapterev, Kharakter otnoshenii Rossii k pravoslavnomu Vostoku v XVI I XVII stoletiiakh (Sergiev Posad: M. S. Elov editions, 1914); V. G. Chentsova, Ikona Iverskoi Bogomateri (Ocherki istorii grecheskoi tserkvi s Rossii v seredine XVII v. po documentam Rossiiskogo Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Drevnikh Aktov) The article is written with the support of the Russian Fund for Fundamental Research project No 19-09-41004.

Gerd (*) Saint Petersburg Institute of History, Saint Petersburg, Russia
A general review of Russian activities in the Palestine region
13 On the Russian dependencies in Palestine during WWI see
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