Constantinople “Mascaralyc” in Letters and Memoirs of K.A. Goubastov
The publication contains fragments of unpublished letters and memoirs of a Russian diplomat K.A. Goubastov (1845-1919), telling about the life of the embassy in Constantinople before the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878, in particular about the evacuation on April 11, 1877. The letters are addressed to his friend since 1867 K. Leontiev. The topic of correspondence allows us to consider these documents not only as just as eyewitness account, but also as the material enlarging our scope of Danilevsky epoch understanding and the source associated with the historiosophical issues that N. Danilevsky was engaged in.