China's Earliest Orthodox Church
Beiguan (Present day Russian Embassy)
image from N. Veselovskii (1905)

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. The Mission also refers to itself in English as the Russian Orthodox Mission according to its official publication Kitajskij Blagovestnik.

• First Visit by a British Diplomat to the Russian Mission (February 3, 1866)
• A Baptist's First Visit to the Russian Mission (March 1868)
• Russian Ecclesiastical Mission BY J. DUDGEON, EsQ. M. D. (June 23, 1870)
• MISSIONS OF THE RUSSIAN CHURCH IN CHINA AND JAPAN. by C.R. Hale (1878)
• The Russian Orthodox Church in China (February 1913)
• Diagram of Beijing and its environs, indicating properties of the Beijing Spiritual Mission ("Kitaiski Blagovestnik", 1914 issue)
• Plan of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing
  drawn by archim. Sophrony (Gribovsky)
• Materials for the History of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Beijing (in Russian)
  by Nikolai Ivanovich Veselovskii (1905); another pdf courtesy of All Saints of North America Orthodox Church (www.asna.ca)
• To a Certain Pensionary who is commenting by his own whim on the Sino-Japanese War
  Missionary Letter 22 of St Nikolai Velimirović, c. 1930's
• Beiguan: Russian Spiritual Mission in China (Tianjin, 1939) [Russian pdf | OCR text]
• Russian Mission in China 1685-1745 by Alexander Medvedev (Machine Translation)
• Heads of the Russian Spiritual Mission in Beijing
• The History of Moscow Metoche of Russian Orthodox Mission in China (Feb 1999, Machine Translation)
• The Episode from the Life of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China (February 1999)
• A religious-legal basis of activity of the Russian spiritual mission in China (Machine Translation)
• Missions in Northern China after the Boxer Rebellion
  English trans. by Jeremias Norman
• The Russian Orthodox Mission in China: ARCHIMANDRITE INNOCENT (Oct 1916)
• A belated remark on a 1994 article
• RESOLUTION. May 15/28, 1924. To be included in the Annals of the Mission.
• Property of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China as of January, 1, 1950
• Hong Kong has published a new monograph on the history of Beijing Mission (November 6, 2010)
• Mission Library of Beiguan
• Meteorological Station of Beiguan
• Mission Parish of Tongzhou
• Mission Parish of Haimen
• Mission Parish of Taizhou
• St John the Baptist Mission Parish of Yongpingfu
• Mission Parish of Wangjiazhuang
• THE RUSSIAN ECCLESIASTICAL MISSION IN BEIJING: 150 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH AND DIPLOMACY (September 2008)

View of Mission's
North Compound
(Bei-guan), 1805.
Drawing by a Chinese artist
from archive of A. S. Ipatova

1829

1850 from K. Skachkova album

"Beiguan", 1939