The Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society (Russian: Императорское православное палестинское общество), was founded in 1882.
The Society s a scholarly organization for the study of the Middle East. Following the Russian Revolution of 1917, the society was renamed the Russian Palestine Society (Russian: Российское Палестинское Общество) and attached to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Its original name was restored by the society on May 22,1992.
![Планъ Современнаго Іерусалима [Plan of Contemporary Jerusalem.]](/map/small/56472.jpg)
Rare, large format, color-lithographed Russian map of Jerusalem published in 1885 by the Russian Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society. The map is printed in five colors, with topography shown by contour lines. It records information of use to Russian...
