Item RU-AVPRI/180/1849/ff63-64v - About banks in Palestine

1 item, fol. 63-64v

Secret report; banks in Palestine, it's direction; in November opened a branch of Imperial Ottoman bank with Italo Rossi as director; disloyalty of Credit Lyonnais towards Russia, Greek Patriarchate has a big debt and could be influenced by Credit Lyonnais; Russian consul proposes to move debt to Ottoman bank; regret about absence of Russian banks in Palestine. Sender: Russian consul general in Jerusalem A.G. Yakovlev; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople I.A. Zinoviev.