D. Y. SHERIKH. TURKISH PETERSBURG. FROM THE HISTORY OF RUSSIAN-TURKISH RELATIONS, MOSCOW: ZAO Tsentrpoligraf Publishing House, 2012, 255 p. (1); MUSTAFA ARMAGHAN. PETERSBURG'DA OSMANLI İZLERİ. KUĞUNUN SON ŞARKISI. İstanbul: Timaş Yayinlan, 2012* (2). 3. Baskt. 265 s. For many years, researchers of Russian-Turkish relations have been waiting for the appearance of books that are important not only for the general moments of the joint centuries-old history of the Russian and Ottoman Empires, but also for its particular moments. Turkologists and historians in Russia and Turkey have noted that both Russia and Turkey, despite the vast wealth of archives on both sides, have not yet written books about Turkish Moscow, Turkish St. Petersburg, and everyday cultural, trade, and kinship contacts of ordinary people. In 2003, a book by Mustafa Armagan dedicated to Turkish and Ottoman St. Petersburg was published in Turkey, and in 2012 the baton was continued by the St. Petersburg journalist and historian Dmitry Yuryevich Sherikh, the author of monographs on the history of St. Petersburg and its individual districts, and the gap was partially filled. This review is an attempt to compare the two books. Turkish book " Traces of the Ottomans in St. Petersburg. The Swan Song" by Mustafa Armagan, was written, as its author notes, quite quickly. One short trip to St. Petersburg was enough for Armagan, which was followed by several years of working with historical literature. * Armagan, Mustafa. Traces of the Ottomans in St. Petersburg. The Swan song. Istanbul: Timas Jaimlary, 2012. 3rd ed. 265 p. page 212 Unfortunately, the author did not refer to the Ottoman archives. A book that was intended to be scientific or popular science has become almost artistic in the process of being written. It was well received in Turkey, and by the time this review was written, it had already gone through three reprints, but it was practically unknown in Russia until now. The peer-reviewed third edition c ... Read more