Название: Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century
Автор: Pinar Ure
Издательство: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 1788310128
Год: 2020
Формат: PDF
Страниц: 224
Размер: 18,9 МБ
Язык: Английский

There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world's leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute – its purpose was to stake the claim that Russia was the correct heir to 'Tsargrad' (as Istanbul was referred to in Russian circles).