Author: Lora Gerd
Publisher/Publication: Scrinium
DOI/ISBN: 10.1163/18177565-bja10055
In the 1840s the Russian government for the first time made steps toward systematical use of religious and cultural diplomacy in its Middle East policy and continued to act accordingly in the future decades. The article argues that in the conditions of competition as part of the Eastern Question, the Russian government was looking for new methods of church policy and paid special attention to converting the Greek Catholics and other non-Orthodox communities into Orthodoxy.