A Russian Diplomat in the Vilayet of the Hejaz at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century

Abstract

This article endeavors to detect the goals, main tracks and priorities of Russian diplomacy in a vilayet of the Ottoman Empire, the Hejaz, through the official correspondence of a Russian diplomat, Mikhail Nikolsky, who in the early twentieth century served as a Secretary of the Russian Consulate in Jeddah. The article is a result of close scrutiny of the perused archival documents from the Foreign Policy Archive of the Russian Empire, pertinent to the period of the First Russian Revolution of 1905-1907. Many of these documents are being introduced into academic discourse for the first time.

Keywords

Hejaz, Russian Consulate, Vali, Sharif, Tribes

Citation

Vitaly Naumkin, “A Russian Diplomat in the Vilayet of the Hejaz at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century”, Uluslararasi Iliskiler, Vol. 17, No. 67, 2020, pp. 21-40, DOI: 10.33458/uidergisi.772671

Affiliations

• Vitaly NAUMKIN, Prof. Dr., Institute of Oriental Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences