About the book: 2019 / The Ottoman Empire, after its defeat at Vienna in 1683, still remained a global Eurasian-African power. After the victory at Poltava, Russia turned into the hegemon of Northern and Eastern Europe and a direct threat to the Ottoman Empire, which decided to remove the powerless Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from Russian control and recapture Azov, which became the main cause of the war of 1710–1713. As a result, Russia was cut off from the southern sea, Azov, Taganrog and part of the influence in Moldova, Wallachia, Montenegro, Herzegovina, Serbia, Western Circassia and Kabarda were lost. The war with Turkey prolonged the Northern War for several years. However, Peter I’s campaigns to the Danube, Crimea and the Caucasus became a stage in Russian policy in the “Eastern Question” and a harbinger of Ottoman failures in the wars of the 18th - first quarter of the 19th centuries.