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Reclaiming Byzantium: Russia, Turkey and the Archaeological Claim to the Middle East in the 19th Century

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There is a long-held feeling in Russia that Moscow is the true heir to the Christian Byzantine Empire. In 1894, Imperial Russia opened one of the world's leading centres for Byzantine archaeology in Istanbul, the Russian Archaeological Institute – its purpose was to stake the claim that Russia was the correct heir to 'Tsargrad' (as Istanbul was referred to in Russian circles).

This then is the history of that institute, and the history of Russia's efforts to reclaim its Middle East – events...