Russian Turkish Official Contacts in the Azov Sea Region in the Summer of 1999 (to the prehistory of the Mission of Envoy Extraordinary Yemelyan Ukraintsev)
Journal: Crimean Historical Review
Year: 2023

The article examines official contacts between the Russian Tsardom and the Ottoman Empire in the Sea of Azov Region during the preparation of the embassy of Y.I. Ukraintsev to Constantinople in 1699. The parties were represented by officials who did not have diplomatic status: Admiral F.A. Golovin, who arrived in Azov and the Beylerbey of Kefe Tatar Murtaza Pasha, who was in Kerch. The Azov Palatine (Governor) participated in organizing communication between them, within the framework of the so-