ABSTRACT
In 1905 in New York Cathedral, Tikhon Bellavin, archpastor of the Russian Orthodox Missionary Diocese in America, delivered a sermon on the anniversary of the Coronation of the Russian Emperor Nicholas II. Non-Jewish Russian immigrants in America at the beginning of the twentieth century affiliated for the most part with the Diocese of North America and Alaska. In the years 1904 and 1905, when Russia was embroiled in the war with Japan and British public opinion sided with the Nippon armies, enforcing the value of the treaty signed by Great Britain with Japan in January 1902, the United States reconsidered its good partner, the Romanov Empire. Tikhon had called the tsar the 'Prince of Peace', the realization of his role as a Christian ruler. The Emperor's figure was essential in the symphonic vision of the powers animating the Russian State, a model descending directly from its Byzantine legacy.
