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Report; Issa-khan, Khiva khan's brother, visits Jerusalem on 19-26 September, transit from Mecca, accommodation in Russian consulate, visit of Muslims sacred places, ceremonial reception. Sender: Russian consul in Jerusalem D.N. Bukharov; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople A.I. Nelidov.

Report; litigation between one German and one Russian Jew, German appeals to Russian consulate, Russian consul sends him to Russian Embassy in Constantinople; jurisdiction for foreign subjects in Ottoman Empire. Sender: acting Russian consul in Jerusalem V.A. Maximov; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople A.I. Nelidov.

Report; military forces in Palestine, rediffs come back from Thessaloniki, preparing of a new draft of 3000 persons, 800 soldiers in Palestine and a half of them are in Jerusalem. Sender: Russian consul in Jerusalem D.N. Bukharov; Recipient: adviser of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople M.K. Onu.

26 documents and schedule, correspondence between consulate, RIPPO, Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, First Department of the Russian foreign ministry, project of Russian cemetery in Gethsemane, reasons, opposition of Greek Patriarchate because of it's revenues, Ottoman laws about cemeteries.

Confidential Report; proposal to buy 2 lots on Mount Zion: one of them is former American cemetery, in 1897 American consul wanted to sell it to Franciscans and started to remove bones to English cemetery, families and Greek Patriarchate are discontented. Russian consul apprehends difficulties with this lot and wants to bring down the price, but he is interested, since Russia doesn't have lots on Mount Zion. Sender: Russian consul general in Jerusalem A.G. Yakovlev; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople I.A. Zinoviev.

Report; a rabbis defend to Jews to go to English hospital and to butchers to sell meat under the threat of refusal of interment. Rabbis refuse to inter a Jew woman died in English hospital, conflict with consulates and governor. English consul makes governor arresting Jewish ultras, Jews want to complain to Sultan, reconciliation; public and religious moods, public health, cemeteries. Sender: acting Russian consul general in Jerusalem B. Evreinov; Recipient: adviser of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople V.V. Jadovsky.

Report; recommendation for Cambridge associated professor Rendel Harris, professor of Biblical languages in Haverford College Pennsylvania. He worked in Greek Patriarchate, studied manuscripts, published original and English translation of recently discovered "Teaching of apostles"; science, library. Sender: Russian consul general in Jerusalem S.V. Arseniev; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople A.I. Nelidov.

Report; request to increase consulate's budget, consulate transformed in general since 1891, prices in Jerusalem, consulate expenses. Sender: acting Russian consul in Jerusalem A.P. Belyaev; Recipient: adviser of the Russian Embassy in Constantinople V.V. Jadovsky.

Report about a robbery of Russian church on the Mount of Olives, list of steal objects, arrest of Muslim suspects; criminal situation; public order; police. Sender: Russian consul general in Jerusalem S.V. Arseniev; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople A.I. Nelidov.

Report; Russian pilgrims' sanitary condition, typhus, reasons of the epidemic, arrangements, statistics of cases; public health. Sender: Russian consul in Jerusalem V.F. Kojevnikov; Recipient: Russian ambassador in Constantinople A.I. Nelidov.