title: Found and buy, study and appropriate, build and reconfigure: The three stages in turning the “Coptic domain” in Jerusalem into the Church of Saint Alexander Nevsky (1856-1896)
abstract: This research 1 is part of the study of Russian policy in the Arab territories of the Ottoman Empire that has developed since the collapse of the USSR and the opening of many Russian archives. From the 1960s on, English-language historians began working on the Russian presence in the Levant (Stavrou 1963, Hopwood 1969). However, like Soviet historians, they had then no access to all the Imperial Russian sources, from the State, the Orthodox Church and other religions, which would have enabled th
journal: European journal of Turkish studies