The Balkan crisis of 1875–78 and Russia
Journal: Manchester University Press eBooks
Year: 2017

In this chapter the focus is wider, including other aspects of humanitarian intervention and not only diplomatic exchanges and the views of major protagonists. The elements of a rising Russian and European sense of identification and empathy with the suffering is traced and the links and vehicles through which the suffering of 'strangers' in the unknown Balkans (the 'Christian East' of the Asian Department of the Russian foreign ministry) were brought to the attention of the wider Russian public