Collection of articles. Ed. by I. A. Mustakimov, A. G. Sitdikov; nauch. edited by I. V. Zaitsev and D. A. Mustafin. art. V. V. Trepavlov. Kazan: Institute of History of the Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Tatarstan, 2009. 428 p. ("Bibliotheca tatarica") The reviewed collection is a translation of articles published in different years (mainly in the 1960s-1980s) by an international group of specialists (including Turkish, Romanian, etc.) who worked in France under the supervision of Professor Alexander Bennigsen (1913 - 1988). These scholars (and their modern French followers) were the first to develop materials from the Istanbul archives concerning the international relations of the 16th and 18th centuries in Eastern Europe and, in this connection, the history of the Turkic peoples of this region. The source base used by them is still little introduced into scientific use, and therefore it is currently interesting and new for both specialists and the general reader. For the Russian edition, their works were prepared by Kazan and Moscow colleagues working on similar topics and also beginning to master the Ottoman sources. The foreword by V. V. Trepavlov and the comments by I. A. Mustakimov, I. V. Zaitsev and D. A. Mustafina not only introduce the book, but also show the degree of modern knowledge of the topics raised in them, new literature that appeared after the writing of the published articles. The footnotes not only explain dates, names, terms, and similar reports from Russian-language sources, but also clarify translations and interpretations of published Ottoman texts, which undoubtedly increases the scientific value of this publication. I would like to emphasize, however,that the publishers of translations of these French-language articles did not give their publication the correct name. It is not about the whole of Eastern Europe, but only about its Turkic peoples and their state associations, without touching on other ethnohistorical aspects of the r ... Read more