Author: Ulianitskii, Vladimir Antonovich
Title: Dardanelly, Bosfor I Chernoe More V XVIII Veke [Dardanelles, Bosphorus, and the Black Sea in the 18th Century) Signed/Inscribed by Author
Description: Moskva (Moscow): Tipografiia A. Gattsuka, 1883. Hardcover. First edition; 9 x 6; pp. [7], 2-484, [3], IV-CCLX; rebound in brown cloth over boards; a few small rubbed spots to edges of boards; front hinge reinforced with a thin strip of linen; signature and bookplate of Anatole G. Mazour to title page recto and verso; very good or better condition. Signed and Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Vladimir Ulianitskii (1855 - 1920) was a Russian, historian, professor, and lawyer. He also worked at the main archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow. Drawing on that rich archival material, Ulianitskii wrote his current book and used it as his Master's Degree thesis at the University of St. Petersburg in 1883. In 1885, for it, he was awarded the Uvarov Prize - given by the Russian Academy of Sciences to distinguished authors and historians and named after Aleksei Uvarov (1825 - 1884), a Russian archeologist, considered the founder of the study of the prehistory of Russia. Subtitled: "Study of the Diplomatic History of the Eastern Question," the book presented a summary of the complicated, so called "Eastern Question" regarding the Black Sea straits, focusing primarily on the periods of ruling of Peter the Great and Catherine the Great. After Peter's construction of the Azov Fleet and Russia’s border extension to the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea in the late 1690s, entry into and departure from the Black Sea became an international issue and an important part of the Eastern Question. It was not until 1774, when the Ottoman Empire recognized Russia’s right to commercial navigation in the Black Sea and the Black Sea straits. The 19th century saw turbulent diplomatic affairs, with Russia's alliance and the right for its ships to go through revoked and reinstated and revoked again, to be followed by the Russian Government's refusal to recognize the articles in the Treaty of Paris concerning the â€oeneutralization†of the Black Sea in 1870, and to finally culminate with the 1877 - 1878 Russo-Turkish War. The previous owner of the book, Anatole Mazour (1900 - 1982), served in the White Guard during the Russian Civil War and later took part in the Russo-Polish campaign of 1921. After the Revolution, in 1921, he fled Ukraine for Germany, and later for the US, where he settled in 1923. He would go on to teaching at UC Berkeley, the University of Nevada, and Stanford, where he would become Professor Emeritus in 1965. He was the author of several widely-read books on Russian history and politics, the Romanovs, and the Revolution. The only copy in the trade (as of October 2014). Ill.: 0. 2.

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