Pan-Slavism in the south would often turn to Russia for support.
In 1863, the Association of Serbian Philology commemorated the death of Cyril a thousand years earlier, its president Dimitrije Matić, talked of the creation of an ethnically "pure" Slavonic people: "with God's help, there should be a whole Slavonic people with purely Slavonic faces and of purely Slavonic character"[REF] .