St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society and Serbian Question (1868—1878)

International circumstances during the sixth and seventh decades of the 19th century influenced the popularity of the Slavic question in Russia, which was also reflected in the operation and expansion of the network of the Moscow Slavic Benevolent Committee, so at the end of the 1860s, its almost independent departments were founded in St. Petersburg, Kyiv and Odessa (1868—1870). Favourable circumstances created after the All-Russian Ethnographic Exhibition and the Moscow Slavic Congress were used for the establishment of the St. Petersburg branch in 1877 and the formally independent St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society. At first, this organization did not deal much with Serbs, except for the area of Bosnia-Herzegovina, for which Alexander Fedorovich Hilferding was considered the leading expert among Slavophiles. However, this changed over time, during the years of the Great Eastern Crisis, and especially after the Berlin Congress, when the St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society declared itself as a non-political social organization, limited exclusively to charitable work, and took over all the affairs of the closed Moscow Slavic Benevolent Society, especially those related to the education of South Slavs in Russia. The paper is dedicated to the analysis and review of the activities of the St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society in the context of Serbs, and it is limited in time to the first decade of the organization's existence, i.e., it covers the period from its very foundation in 1868 until 1878. Based on the extensive archival materials of Russian and Serbian provenance, the aim is to shed light on the contribution of this organization in the development of the Serbian national question during the end of seventh and eighth decades of the 19th century.

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St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society, Slavophiles, Serbs, Metropolitan Mihailo (Jovanović), Russia

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27.11.2023

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25.03.2024

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GOST	Jovana Blažić P. St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society and Serbian Question (1868—1878) // ISTORIYA – 2024. – V. 15. – Issue 2 (136) [Electronic resource]. URL: https://history.jes.su/S207987840030400-9-1 (circulation date: 25.07.2024). DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030400-9
MLA	Jovana Blažić, Pejić "St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society and Serbian Question (1868—1878)." ISTORIYA 15.2 (136) (2024) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030400-9
APA	Jovana Blažić P. (2024). St. Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society and Serbian Question (1868—1878). ISTORIYA 15(2 (136)) DOI: 10.18254/S207987840030400-9

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