Article
Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century
History Faculty Research and Scholarship
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-1-2005
Disciplines
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.
Citation Information
Theophilus C Prousis. "Risky Business: Russian Trade in the Ottoman Empire in the Early Nineteenth Century" (2005) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/theo_prousis/4/
Originally published in Mediterranean Historical Review 20, no.2 (2005): 201-26
DOI: 10.1080/09518960500481073