Introduction: the Eastern question reconsidered / Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky -- The Russian protectorate in the Danubian principalities: legacies of the Eastern question in contemporary Russian-Romanian relations / Victor Taki -- "Dreadful scenes of carnage on both sides": the Strangford files and the Eastern crisis of 1821-22 / Theophilus C. Prousis -- Slaves of the sultan: Russian ransoming of Christian captives during the Greek Revolution (1821-30) / Lucien J. Frary -- Russia's quest for the Holy Grail: relics, liturgics, and great power politics in the Ottoman Empire / Jack Fairey -- The Crimean War and the Tatar exodus / Mara Kozelsky -- Russia, Mount Athos, and the Eastern question (1878-1914) / Lora Gerd -- "Forty years of black days"? the Russian administration of Kars, Ardahan, and Batum (1877-1918) / Candan Badem -- The idea of an Eastern Federation: an alternative to the destruction of the Ottoman Empire / John A. Mazis -- Squabbling over the spoils: late Imperial Russia's rivalry with France in the Near East / Ronald P. Bobroff -- The Eastern |