Antonin (Kapustin) and the Garden tomb in Jerusalem: comments to the Diary of 1866

The paper describes a previously unknown Russian part of the story relating to the discovery of the Garden Tomb also known as Gordon’s Calvary, which is an important Protestant archaeological site in Jerusalem, as well as participation of Conrad Schick in its research. Schick was a Jerusalem-based architect and archaeologist, he was one of the main researchers of antiquities during the Russian excavations near the Holy Sepulcher.