THE EVOLUTION OF THE IDEA OF CONSTANTINOPLE AND STRAITS IN THE PERIOD OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR (as remembered by the french ambassador M. Paleologue and the english ambassador J. Buchanan)
The article deals with one of the strategic objectives of the participation of Russia in the First World War. On the basis of the documentary sources there is monitored the relation to its implementation of the different political circles and the evolution of the position of the allies of the Russian Empire in the case of the postwar belonging of Constantinople and Bosphorus strait and Dardanelles on the ground of the memorial literature of the French and British diplomats.