Two centuries of Russian classics

Acknowledgments:

The work was carried out in accordance with the state task of the IRL RAS within the framework of the Program of Fundamental Scientific Research in the direction “Russia and the Middle East: Historical, Political and Cultural Contacts and Relationships” of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and the International Public Organization “Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society” in 2023.

Abstract:

In the last two decades, domestic science has been enriched by a corpus of works describing pilgrimages to the Holy Land in the 19^th – early 20^th centuries. This happened thanks to intensive archeographic research in Russian archives, which have preserved many texts of different genres that tell about the pilgrimage to Jerusalem. The article presents an overview of a number of such works preserved in manuscripts and / or recently published, and considers the principles that can make it possible to assess the relevance of expanding the source base for the study of domestic pilgrimage literature. These principles are based on the evaluation of the content of the work, the time of the pilgrimage, the social status of the author, the integrity of the text and the degree of its originality.

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