Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- 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 1821-1822 - Theophilus C. Prousis -- Slaves of the Sultan: Russian Ransoming of Christian Captives during the Greek Revolution, 1821-1830 - 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, 1878-1918 - 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 Question in Turkish Republican Textbooks: Settling Old Scores with the European and the Ottoman "Other" - Nazan Çiçek -- Epilogue: Legacies of the Eastern Question - Lucien J. Frary and Mara Kozelsky -- Contributors -- Index.