ABSTRACT
The notion that 'Great Britain might be reformed in Russia' was tenaciously held by a vicar of Newcastle-on-Tyne, John Brown. As a propaganda centre for ensuring a Christian Europe, a 'unity without union' between Orthodox Russia, Protestant Prussia and Roman Catholic Austria, the Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and National Instruction in Russia was created in 1817. The Russian Ministry of Spiritual Affairs and National Instruction won favourable comment in England. The Quarterly Journal also paid tribute to the ministry's regard for provincial loyalties in Russia: 'the establishments for education in the various parts of this heterogeneous empire have each their individual character, which depends on the origin and character of the various peoples who form the mass of the nation, and on the faith which they possess'. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, founded at the same time as Allen's Lindfield colony, issued the Quarterly Journal of Education.
