Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century

Authors

Theophilus C. Prousis, University of North FloridaFollow

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

12-2005

Abstract

Irregularities in the implementation of Russian-Ottoman trade accords often turned commercial promise into risky business for Russian merchant shipping in the Levant. The Russian archival records presented here for the first time in English translation – four restitution requests and trade loss inventories submitted to the Sublime Porte by the Russian envoy in 1816 – provide telling detail not just on the perils of Russian trade but on the extent of Russia's commercial networks in the Ottoman Empire. The documents offer a Russian perspective on trade issues in the Levant and suggest the commercial dimension of Russian involvement in the Eastern Question.

Comments

Originally published in Mediterranean Historical Review 20, no.2 (2005): 201-26

DOI: 10.1080/09518960500481073

Recommended Citation

Prousis, Theophilus C., "Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century" (2005). History Faculty Research and Scholarship. 9.
https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/ahis_facpub/9