MURAVEV, ANDREA NICOLAEVIĆ. - Russian writer and theologian, b. in 1806, d. in 1874. The account of his pilgrimage to the Holy Land (St Petersburg, 1832) drew upon him the attention of Emperor Nicholas I, who made him secretary of the Holy Synod. His works, on theology, liturgy, and ecclesiastical history, followed one another from 1836 onward. The chief of these 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, through two works: The truth of the universal church concerning the Roman see and the other patriarchal sees (ibid., 1841), and the pamphlet Reply of an Orthodox 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 articles collected in French as: Réfutation d'un écrit intitulé: Paroles de l'orthodoxie catholique au catholicisme romain (Paris, 1854). M. always remained opposed to union with Rome, as also appears in the three volumes Question religieuse d'Orient et Occident (Moscow, 1856; St Petersburg, 1858, 1859).