On 11 July 2025, two members of our project participated in the conference titled “The Ottomans and Diplomacy” at Newnham College of the University of Cambridge.
Tetiana Grygorieva’s paper, ‘Cossack Ukraine as the Tributary of the Ottoman Empire: Challenges of Communication and Representation’, explored the Cossack standing representative in Constantinople between 1672 and 1676 and how it maintained the connection with Hetman Petro Doroshenko’s seat in Chyhyryn.
Natalia Królikowska-Jedlińska examined the diplomatic mission of a Crimean envoy dispatched to Poland-Lithuania in 1714. Her research and paper, ‘On the Crimean Diplomatic Practices: Sefer Şah Ağa’s Mission to Poland-Lithuania in 1714’, utilized a wide range of sources and explored how the Crimean Tatars served as intermediaries between the Ottoman Empire and Poland-Lithuania, pursuing their own political goals at the same time.
