O'Flynn, Thomas (2017) Scottish and Jesuit Missionaries in the North Caucasus and the Imperial Russian Dominions: Karass, Astrakhan, Mozdok, Orenburg, the Crimea and Odessa (1805–30s). In: The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760–c.1870. Studies in Christian Mission (47). Brill Academic Publishers, pp. 326-474. ISBN 9789004313545
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In 1815 the centre of gravity of the Karass mission moved eastwards close to the Russian shores of the Caspian Sea. The Karass mission personnel and their printing presses were transferred to Astrakhan, the principal city of the Volga region. This branch of the Edinburgh Missionary Society’s mission was set up by John Mitchell, John Dickson and their families, accompanied by the emancipated James Peddie, Andrew Hunter and two unnamed ransomed girls. Quite astonishingly, in less than three years they printed 20,000 tracts in Tatar-Turkish (in this region, more correctly called Volga-Tatar), its dialects, and in Arabic: 10,000 copies of the Psalter, 5,000 copies of a second edition of Matthew’s Gospel, 5,000 copies of Luke’s Gospel, 5,000 copies of the New Testament paid for by the Russian Bible Society and 2,000 copies of Matthew’s Gospel in the Orenburg Tatar dialect. Armenian, Persian and other merchants carried these Gospel editions into Georgia, the Crimea, Bucharia, Persia and Kazan.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Subjects: | A Church/mission history G Christian traditions/Denominations > Reformed, Presbyterian |
| Divisions: | Former Soviet Union > Azerbaijan Former Soviet Union > Russian Federation Former Soviet Union > Ukraine |
| Depositing User: | Katharina Penner |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Feb 2024 12:34 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Feb 2024 12:34 |
| URI: | https://ceeamsprints.osims.org/id/eprint/2912 |
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