Caviar and wine: luxury goods on Mount Athos (19th-21st centuries)

This article analyses the circulation of merchandises and people between Greece and Russia over two centuries and draws on the example of the dissemination of two merchandises, both linked to Mount Athos: caviar and wine. More specifically, it examines, on the one hand, the relationship between luxury goods and Orthodox monasticism; and on the other hand, the role that luxury may play from a territorial point of view, whether in relation to Empires, states or a self-administered, monastic peninsula.