Ratification and Implementation of the Treaty of Constantinople of 1700: Formation of a New Model of Relations between Russia and the Ottoman Empire

Abstract. The article examines the main conditions of the Treaty of Constantinople in 1700, analyzes its results for both the Russian state and the Ottoman Empire. It traces the procedure of the ratification of the agreement by the Russian tsar and the Turkish Sultan, as well as the work of border commissions on the demarcation of the general border. For the first time, the whole procedure of implementing the treaty that ended the Russian-Turkish War of 1686–1700 is comprehensively investigated. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms for the implementation of organizational measures for the ratification and implementation of the treaty. The research made it possible to come to the conclusion that the treaty for the first time in history established a common official land border between the two countries. As a result, there was a formation of a new model of relationships in which there was no longer a place for such “secondary subjects of international relations” as the Crimean Khanate, Zaporizhzhya and Don troops. Another outcome of the events, which became a distant harbinger of the death of the Crimean power, was the violation of the old land routes of communication between the peninsula and the Kuban. The work used both already published sources (correspondence of Peter I, the text of the treaty) and archival materials (lists of the treaty, ratification documents, papers of boundary commissions, etc.), some of which are being introduced into scientific circulation.

Keywords: Treaty of Constantinople, Peter I, E.I. Ukrainians, I. Cheredeev, The Russo-Turkish War of 1686–1700, ratification, Azov, Kazi-Kermen, D.M. Golitsyn.