in the campaign “Russo-Turkish War and Pan-Slavism (1877–1878)”
The ideological justification of a war of conquest by religion and Pan-Slavism: per Dostoevsky, "by Russia's insistence and blood the Slavs have already been liberated… the Turkish empire no longer exists and… the Balkan peninsula is free and lives a new life"[1] – the war was given the status of a sacred mission of liberating co-religionists.