Proposal of the Establishment of the Moscow Slavic Mutual Aid Society in 1889 Cover Image

Предлог о оснивању Словенског друштва узајамне помоћи у Москви из 1889. године
Proposal of the Establishment of the Moscow Slavic Mutual Aid Society in 1889

Author(s): Jovana Blažić Pejić
Subject(s): History
Published by: Istorijski institut, Beograd
Keywords: Moscow Slavic Benevolent Society; Slavophilism; Moscow Slavic Mutual Aid Society; Metropolitan Mihailo; Vladimir Andreyevich Dolgorukov; Russia

Summary/Abstract: The Congress of Berlin and the closing down of the Moscow Slavic Benevolent Society struck a blow to Russian Slavophilism, so the 1880s and the 1890s were decades during which the Slavophile movement struggled to“survive”. Although the centre of Slavophilism had now moved to Saint Petersburg, where the Saint Petersburg Slavic Benevolent Society now continued its work, during the 1880s, at several intervals, propositions were made for the restoration of the former Moscow Slavic Benevolent Society. For political reasons, those initiatives were unsuccessful. In 1889, the Ministry for Slavs Educated in Moscow was established and it was only in 1894 that the Slavic Mutual Aid Society was founded. The prepared document testifies to the initiative that was born five years before the foundation itself – that a Slavic Mutual Aid Society should be formed in Moscow. A group of Slavs in Moscow,who made that proposition, composed a draft constitution of the society and asked Metropolitan Mihailo to assist them in the establishment process. The submitted document is treasured in the Archive of the Serbian Orthodox Church in Belgrade.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 36
  • Page Range: 275-288
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Serbian