Moscow, Nauka Publ. 1983. 302 p. In her new work, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Soviet History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Doctor of Historical Sciences, A.M. Stanislavskaya continues her research on Russian foreign policy and international relations in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the Eastern Mediterranean, which she started more than 20 years ago. As in the previous work 2, the author focuses on the politics of Russia and Greece, this time at a brief stage in 1798-1800, and shows it through the activities of the outstanding Russian naval commander Admiral F. F. Ushakov. The study is based on an expanded source base compared to the previous literature and significantly changes our understanding of F. F. Ushakov, describing him not only as a naval commander (which is described in detail by E. V. Tarle, A. I. Andrushchenko, etc.), but also as a major political figure of the moderate-liberal trend, one of the representatives of the "course for adaptation". on post-revolutionary relations in Europe " (p. 10). At the same time, the author managed to partially overcome the scheme according to which tsarism was always and everywhere a monster, while its local servants were progressive people, and this progressiveness increased as if in direct dependence on the geographical distance of their place of activity from St. Petersburg. A. M. Stanislavskaya shows that Ushakov was no exception in Russia's foreign policy at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th centuries, when he put into practice his "constitutional diplomacy" in the Ionian Archipelago. Some Russian diplomats and politicians acted in a similar way (although perhaps not so noticeably) in the Balkans, in the Italian and German principalities, in Finland and Bessarabia until the European revolutions of the 20s of the XIX century. Considering in detail a particular episode of Russian military policy in a remote region of Southern Europe, the author solves a more general and com ... Read more