Download or read book The Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Peking During the Eighteenth Century written by Eric Widmer and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1976 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.