China's Earliest Orthodox ChurchBeiguan (Present day Russian Embassy)
Russian Orthodox Mission in China is the English translation by Ksenia Kepping (niece of last mission head Abp Viktor) of the Russian name Rossijskaja Duhovnaja Missia v Kitae which the Mission used to refer itself.
View of Mission's North Compound (Bei-guan), 1805. Drawing by a Chinese artist from archive of A. S. Ipatova
"Beiguan", 1939