Travels of Russians to the Holy Land in the 19th Century
This article focuses on three main aspects: the presence of the Holy Land in the Russian literature of pilgrimage, the creation in Palestine of Russian institutions, and the representations of the Holy Land in Russian architecture. By doing that, this article aims at analyzing how personalities of t...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Fondazione Centro di Documentazione Ebraica Contemporanea CDEC
2013-12-01
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| Series: | Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History |
| Online Access: | http://www.quest-cdecjournal.it/focus.php?id=339 |
| Summary: | This article focuses on three main aspects: the presence of the Holy Land in the Russian literature of pilgrimage, the creation in Palestine of Russian institutions, and the representations of the Holy Land in Russian architecture. By doing that, this article aims at analyzing how personalities of the Russian cultural, literary and religious world spoke about the Holy Land in the 19th century (the so-called ‘Russian Palestine’), while pointing out the value of pilgrimage to the Holy Land for the Russian Orthodox tradition and also recalling the important element of the representation of ‘Jerusalem outside Jerusalem’.
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| ISSN: | 2037-741X |