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Smyrna In 1821: A Russian View, Theophilus C. Prousis
Smyrna In 1821: A Russian View, Theophilus C. Prousis
Theophilus C. Prousis
Smyrna was a dangerous, tumultuous outpost in 1821, especially for a Russian diplomatic official during the initial months of the Greek War of Independence. This is the most palpable conclusion from the personal diary of the Ionian Greek, Spyridon Iur'evich Destunis (1782-1848), who served as Russian consul general in Smyrna from 1818 to 1821. His unpublished diary, one of the richest files in the sizable Destunis collection housed in the Manuscript Section of the Saltykov-Shchedrin State Public Library in Leningrad, appears here in English translation for the first time. It offers an extremely valuable eyewitness account of the almost nonstop …
Avpr (Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossii) And The Orthodox East, Theophilus C. Prousis
Avpr (Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossii) And The Orthodox East, Theophilus C. Prousis
Theophilus C. Prousis
This article contributes to the Russian scholarly tradition of istochnikovedenie (study of sources) by identifying selected documents in Moscow's Arkhiv Vneshnei Politiki Rossii (AVPR, Archive of Russian Foreign Policy) on Imperial Russia's religious contacts with the Greek East during the nineteenth century. Describing the rich and diverse sources available in the archival/manuscript collections of Russia, Ukraine, and other parts of the former USSR is an essential task in laying the foundation for a more precise and systematic account of Russian religious and cultural ties to the Greek East than has hitherto been the case.
Landscape Of The Levant: A Russian View, Theophilus C. Prousis
Landscape Of The Levant: A Russian View, Theophilus C. Prousis
Theophilus C. Prousis
European travel literature on the Levant provides one of the most accessible, if not always accurate, sources for studying life and society in the Ottoman world in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The prospects of adventure, trade, and pilgrimage attracted generations of European men and women, many of whom recorded their impressions of places and peoples encountered in the Near East. In view of Russia's proximity to the Ottoman Empire, not to mention Russian religious and cultural ties with the sultan's Eastern Orthodox Christians, travelers from Muscovite and Imperial Russia visited the Ottoman realm, and many of them, drawn to …
Bedlam In Beirut: A British Perspective In 1826, Theophilus C. Prousis
Bedlam In Beirut: A British Perspective In 1826, Theophilus C. Prousis
Theophilus C. Prousis
Foreign consuls from European states compiled countless communiques about the state of the Ottoman Empire during the turbulent early nineteenth century, a period fraught with internal and external crises triggered by war, revolt, sectarian tension, the breakdown of once effective governing institutions, and European rivalries associated with the Eastern Question. Consular records offer firsthand information and a treasure trove of detail on economic, commercial, social, political, and military conditions in the Ottoman world. By relating specific incidents, episodes, and situations, eyewitness commentaries by consuls provide insight into urban and rural affairs and shed light on the human dimension of everyday …