The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century

Book excerpt: Preliminary Material /Eric Widmer --Introduction /Eric Widmer --The Beginnings of the Ecclesiastical Mission in China /Eric Widmer --Ilarion Lezhaiskii: The First Ecclesiastical Mission to China /Eric Widmer --Izmailov, Lange, and Kul'chitskii: Back to the Beginning /Eric Widmer --Vladislavich, Platkovskii, and the Kiakhta Treaty /Eric Widmer --The Institutions of the Russian Mission /Eric Widmer --The Missionary Life in Eighteenth-Century Peking /Eric Widmer --The Ecclesiastical Mission and the Problem of "China" in Eighteenth-Century Russia /Eric Widmer --Sino-Russian Relations in the Eighteenth Century /Eric Widmer --Russian Missionaries and Students in Peking in the Eighteenth Century /Eric Widmer --Rulers of Russia and China in the 17th and 18th Centuries /Eric Widmer --Notes /Eric Widmer --Bibliography /Eric Widmer --Index /Eric Widmer --Harvard East Asian Monographs /Eric Widmer.