Byzantine studies on the pages of “Russkoe obozrenie” journal

The article is devoted to the analysis of publications on the history and culture of Byzantium in “Russkoe Obozrenie” (“Russian Review”) — the leading Russian conservative journal of the 1890s. The aim of the study is to determine whether there was a unified editorial approach to the coverage of Byzantine studies in the journal. There are considered the eight articles in the journal and a number of related archival sources (namely letters). A comparative historical analysis has been carried out, references to adjacent articles of the same journal have been identified. The approaches to the Byzantine studies of two editors of “Russkoe Obozrenie”, Prince Dmitry Tsertelev and Anatoly Alexandrov, are analyzed separately. The motives of the main author-Byzantinist in the magazine, Mikhail Solovyov, and his worldview are studied in detail. The connection between his writings and the statements of different years with each other is traced. As a result, the thesis about the desire of the editorial board of the “Russkoe Obozrenie” to pursue a unified political and ideological line in the articles on the Byzantine heritage is certainly confirmed. However, the editors did not make the necessary efforts to make this topic sound more often in the journal.