"WE WERE MEANT TO BE NOT THE ENEMIES OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE, BUT THE DEFENDERS FROM ITS ALLEGED WESTERN FRIENDS": RUSSIAN DIPLOMAT ON THE EASTERN QUESTION IN 1864
This research is a continuation of the article «“Eastern Question” in the Russian Socio-political Discourse of the Second Half of the 1850s-1860-s.» The article of the former diplomat V. S. Neklyudov is introduced here for the first time, being a landmark of sorts, because it showed that a decade after the Crimean war there came a change in Russia's view of the Ottoman Empire: Stabilization in The Middle East could be achieved more effectively on the basis of the Russian-Ottoman dialogue than within the framework of European equilibrium.