Summary
This is the first publication of the correspondence between Russian military officer and diplomat N.P. Ignat'ev (1832-1908) and Archbishop Antonin Kapustin, the leader of the Russian Ecclesiastic Mission in Jerusalem (1865-1894) and the founder of Russian Palestine. Ignat'ev was appointed Ambassador to Constantinople in 1867, and participated in drawing up the San Stefano peace treaty of 1878, which resulted in the creation of the independent states of Serbia, Montenegro, and Romania, and of the Bulgarian principality. The correspondence reflects the relations between these two leaders in 1866-1876.