MURAVEV, ANDREA NICOLAEVIČ. — Russian writer and theologian, b. 1806, d. 1874. The account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land (St. Petersburg 1832) drew the attention of Emperor Nicholas I, who appointed him secretary of the Holy Synod. His works, beginning in 1836, dealt with theology, liturgy, and ecclesiastical history. The principal one is perhaps the *History of the Russian Church* (St. Petersburg 1838), translated into English, German, and Greek.
M. became known for his interest in the religious question of the East, with two works: *The Truth of the Universal Church on the Roman See and the Other Patriarchal Sees* (ibid. 1841), and the pamphlet *Reply of a Provocative Catholic to Roman Catholicism* (Moscow 1842), translated into Greek, French, Italian, and Polish. The pamphlet was refuted by the writers of *La Civiltà Cattolica* in the articles collected in French: *Réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Paroles de l'orthodoxie catholique au catholicisme romain* (Paris 1854). M. remained always opposed to union with Rome, as is evident also in the three volumes *Religious Question of East and West* (Moscow 1856, St. Petersburg 1858, 1859).