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Russian Orthodox Mission in China
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.
- Plan of Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Beijing
drawn by archim. Sophrony (Gribovsky), 1821 - Travels of the Russian Mission Through Mongolia to China: And Residence in Pekin, in the Years 1820-1821
(Vol. 1,
Vol. 2)
by George Timkovski, with corrections and notes by Julius von Klaproth (London: 1827) - 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)
- Cossacks — Albazinians in China (Scout: military and Literary Journal. (Petrograd: V.A. Berezovskogo: 1886-1917) Vol. 14 1901, No. 550 (May 1). - 1901. - pp. 415-417)
- 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) - 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)
- The Russian Orthodox Mission in China: ARCHIMANDRITE INNOCENT (Oct 1916)
- A Brief History of the Spiritual Mission in China
Archim. Avraamy (Chasovnikov), 1916. English trans. by Jeremias Norman - RESOLUTION. May 15/28, 1924. To be included in the Annals of the Mission.
- 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]
- Property of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China as of January, 1, 1950
- List of Parishes, Churches, Monasteries, Prayer Houses and Clergy of the Russian Spiritual Mission in China as of July 1, 1950
- 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)
- A belated remark on a 1994 article
- Mission Library in Beiguan
- Meteorological Station in Beiguan
- Mission Parish in Tongzhou
- Mission Parish in Haimen
- Mission Parish in Taizhou
- St John the Baptist Mission Parish Yongpingfu
- Mission Parish in Wangjiazhuang
- THE RUSSIAN ECCLESIASTICAL MISSION IN BEIJING: 150 YEARS AT THE SERVICE OF THE CHURCH AND DIPLOMACY (September 2008)
- Hong Kong has published a new monograph on the history of Beijing Mission (November 6, 2010)
- Beijing Mission's 300th anniversary celebrated with commemorative postage stamps in Hong Kong (May 23, 2012)
- His Holiness Patriarch Kirill: China came to the knowledge of Russia through Russian Orthodox Mission (May 13, 2013)