Description: "This book focuses on the public image of Orthodoxy as constructed by westerners (mainly French) and as imagined by Russian publicists in the 1850s and 1860s "--
Review Quotes:
This book deftly charts efforts by Russian Orthodox publicists in the two decades preceding the First Vatican Council (1869-70) to explain and defend their confession to Roman Catholic clerics and intellectuals in France.
-- "The Russian Review"