This collection of documents (and some photographs), taken primarily from accounts printed in Living Orthodoxy, gives an overview of the background and development of The Mission from the time of Fr. Gregory's first visit in 1999, at the request of the Synod of Bishops, through the establishment of the Mission as an administrative unit of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia, and onward until the reconstitution of the Mission following the submission of most of ROCOR to the Moscow Patriarchate. As they become "dated", materials will be moved from the "Recent News" section to this collection of links.