“Царьград” – Constantinople city guide, in Russian (1915)

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• The Russian style on Grand Rue de Pera

  On Grand Rue de Pera [...] the Rusians are so numerous it seems they are THE most numerous. This is not so; they are just very visible. Their…

• Lydia Seifullina's journey to the Land of the Vanishing Islam (1924)

  The Soviet journalist Lydia Seifullina spent the autumn of 1924 in Turkey. Her travel reports from the "land of the vanishing Islam"…

• Recreating Saint Petersburg's nightlife in Constantinople (1920)

  "...At the edge of the city, almost outside of it, there was a suburb intersected by a long street called Şişli, and this is where a…