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2017

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The prospects of travel, trade, and religious pilgrimage in the Levant fascinated generations of Russia’s men and women from the twelfth to the early twentieth centuries. In particular, the storied sacred sites of Jerusalem attracted the curiosity of myriad Russian travelers: monks and priests, merchants and diplomats, writers and artists, scholars and tourists. Dmitrii V. Dashkov (1784-1839) etched his name in the annals of these visitors with a brief sojourn in Ottoman Palestine in 1820, and his travelogue, rendered here in English, merits attention as a document that offers eyewitness testimony, firsthand observation, and telling detail. These qualities make the narrative a likely choice to be included in a projected collection of resources on tsarist Russia’s relations with the Ottoman Near East, a compendium that assembles select archival, manuscript, and published sources and presents them in an accessible format for students and scholars alike.

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Published in Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in Honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou, ed. Lucien Frary (Bloomington, Ind.: Slavica Publishers, 2017), 675-79

https://slavica.indiana.edu/bookListings/history/Thresholds_into_the_Orthodox_Commonwealth

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