That's interesting, thanks. All I knew about Orthodox evangelism was the latter. :) I am very glad to hear that you have active missionaries. I didn't know that.
Actually we had a lot more active missionaries when there was a Tsar on the throne: besides hermits, there were active missionaries in Alaska, including the Priest-Martyr Juvenaly.
The Russian diplomatic chaplain to Japan just after the opening to the West, St. Nicholas of Japan, decided his posting there was not merely to minister to the diplomats, but to preach the Gospel to the Japanese. His first convert was a samurai who had threatned to kill him for violating the prohibition on Christian preaching that dated to the expulsion of the Portugese. He translated the Scriptures and service books into classical Japanese of the high literary sort used in Shinto and Buddhist rites, but always carefully checking with his convert native-speakers to be certain both of the accuracy of the translation and that Christian concepts expressed couldn't be confused with non-Christian concepts. I'm told his manuals on how to organize new mission churches have been used by protestants in the years since.
Islamic countries also put a 'few' restrictions on Orthodox evangelization under their rule.
The Japanese endearingly call it "Nikorai-doh" (Nikolai's house/home). That church was shoulder-to-shoulder every Sunday I had a chance to be there in the last several years.
It is a monument to Orthodox missionary work even in places where it was strictly prohibited to preach Christianity, as TRD menions, ever since the Portugese presence in that far-off land.