Edessa Metropolitan Agapitos is a "Russian Educatee " and a Typical Levantine Monk of the Second Half of the XIX Century
The article is devoted to the problem of contacts between Russia and Antioch Patriarchate in the second half of the 19th century. There is an attempt to study characteristic features of Levant Orthodox community interior life with an example of CV of Edessa Metropolitan Agapitos, and to go beyond the established traditions in domestic historiography which complementary estimate Russian influence on Antioch Orthodox Church in the 19 <sup>th</sup> century