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As the establishment of a mission in Jerusalem had not been officially negotiated with the authorities of the Ottoman Empire, [[Archimandrite Porfiry]] Porfiry (Uspensky), a noted Church orientalist, arrived in Jerusalem in 1847 as a pilgrim to be the first head of a Russian Church Mission. Archim. Porfiry and his companions established residence at the Monastery of the Archangels in the Old City of Jerusalem. With the outbreak of the Crimean War in October 1853 with Russia at war with the Turks, the mission suspended its work as its members departed Jerusalem in 1854.