File RU-PFARAN/118/Op.1/14 - From 1847 to 1848

1 file; material: paper (white and grey); dimensions (LxW): 22x35, 20x28, 19,5x29; binding, red carton (binding of the Academy of Sciences); manuscript, 343 folios; Recto-Verso; main ink: black and brown ink, pencil

Stay in Petersburg in 1847 and preparation of the mission, meetings with high officials. Ff. 28-30v: Stay in Constantinople, discussions with the Russian ambassador Titov about the Russian mission in Jerusalem. Working with the manuscripts of the metochion of the Holy Sepulcre at Constantinople. Reading the notes of the Armenian patriarch at Jerusalem and comments on it. Meeting the Armenian patriarch at Constantinople and discussion on the rights of the Armenians in Bethlehem. Journey from Constantinople to Jerusalem. Meeting with Patriarch Cyril of Jerusalem, discussion on the controversies between the Greek, Armenian and Latin clergy, the properties of the Holy Sepulcre in Moldavia and Wallachia. Meetings with the Armenian Patriarch and the Latin Patriarch Valerga. Installing in the monastery of St. Archangels at Jerusalem. Fighting between Orthodox and Latins in Bethlehem on March 6, 1848 and participation of Porphyrij in the discussion on it. Reviews of books about Jerusalem. Family stories about the Christians Arabs around Jerusalem. Explanation about the Holy Light at Easter. Regulations of life in the mission. Discussions on the creation of a Palestine committee. A lot of information on the history of Palestine and Syria of the previous periods. Marginal notes in Russian, Greek and Latin.

• الفرنسية

• اليونانية

• اللاتينية

• الروسية

Ff. 51-71v draft of the journals of 1847 (January 1-24). Ff. 74-92 copy of the journals of January 1848. Ff. 80-83 copies of 2 letters written by the Armenian Patriarch in Constantinople to Prince Changerli (in French, dated January 12/24, 1848). Drawings: An engraved ornament with Greek inscription (f. 1) the plan of the Patriarch's house (ff. 2, 3). Small sketch (f. 96v). Sketch of part of Jerusalem with the Patriarch's house (f. 319). Official instructions to Porphyrij as head of the Russian mission (ff. 28-30v, orignal document, dated July 28, 1847). Letter of Joseph, Patriarch of Jerusalem to Porphyrij (arch 19, 1848, original in French) and the answer of Porpyrij (f. 131, copy in French, the same day). Both on the fighting between th Orthodox and Latins in Bethlehem. Copies of Greek and Byzantine documents, translation of Arab documents into Greek, different hands (ff. 297-300, 302-318). Ff. 343-344 the binding of a draft of the Journals of 1848.