The Russo-Slovene Social Relations at the End of the Sixties and at the Beginning of the Seventies of the 19th Century

Abstract

The author describes, mainly on the basis of the archives of U.S.S.R. that has not yet been investigated, the relations between the Russians and the Slovenes at the end of the 60's and at the beginning of the 70's of the 19th century. The relations at that time were closer than before and after the period mentioned of the same century. These relations, vvhich vvere in Russia supported especially by Slavophiles, and in which M. F. Rajevsky, a clergyman of the Russian Embassy Church at Vienna acted as a go-between, included various activities, e. g.: the ethnographic exhibition at Moscow in 1867, the travelling of V. I. Lamansky in Slovenia in 1868, the interest in the Russian language as well as studying Russian, the relations betvveen Russian institutes and The Slovenska matica, sending Russian books to Slovene cultural societies, to The Dramatic Society and to individuals, and subsidizing Slovene societies as well as individuals.