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Belousov A.S. The Navy During the Siege of Azov in 1736: a New Stage of Development for Russian Military Art. In: Bulletin of the Moscow Regional State University. Series: History and Political Sciences, 2019, no. 2, pp. 114–126. DOI: 10.18384/2310-676X-2019-2-114-126 Белоусов А. С. Военно-морской флот во время осады Азова в 1736 г.: новый этап развития отечественного военного искусства // Вестник Московского государственного областного университета. Серия: История и политические науки. 2019. № 2. C. 114–126. DOI: 10.18384/2310-676X-2019-2-114-126 The paper is devoted to the actions of the Don Flotilla built in 1723–1724 and 1733–1735, which played a crucial role during the siege of Azov in 1736. Despite a rather extensive historiography of the Russian-Turkish (Austro-Russian-Turkish) war, this issue has been studied poorly and in isolation from the Russian military-historical context. Based on a large number of Russian and Turkish sources, the author reconstructs and analyzes key stages in the use of the Russian navy against the Turkish garrison and ships, which were sent from Istanbul to help the fortress. Using sources that have not been previously considered in historiography, the author clarifies a number of facts and proposes their new interpretation. A comparative analysis of the actions of the navy during the siege of Azov in 1696 and 1736 is conducted, which allows new trends in the development of Russian military art of naval warfare to be determined.
2019
Belousov A.S. The Russian Navy during the russian-turkish war of 1735-1739: historiographic aspect // Klio. 2019. № 3 (147), pp. 37-43. Белоусов А.С. Военно-морской флот во время русско-турецкой войны 1735-1739 гг.: историографический аспект // Клио. 2019. № 3 (147). С. 37-43. The paper discusses the Russian and foreign historiography of the Russian-Turkish war of 1735-1739 and the naval studies in it, which plague the history of the Don and Dnieper flotillas. The analysis of the published works demonstrates the beginning of interest in this military conflict at the end of the 18th century by foreign historians, and then Russian. The historiographic base of the war of 1735-1739 was formed at the end of XIX - beginning of XX centuries. The historians of the Navy reproduced the existing model of research and concentrated on the publication of sources at this time. In Soviet times, the study of the war almost stopped. The naval context of the war has ceased to be in the field of view of Soviet historical science. New impetus to the development of historiography is identified at the beginning of the XXI century. Russian and foreign historians publish many works and significantly expand the list of problems. There is a widespread presence of the naval theme, emphasizing the fact that most researchers limit themselves to describing the history of the construction of flotillas without a comprehensive analysis of their shipbuilding programs, staff and combat use. In addition, many modern military historians do not use the experience of previous historiography and base their work on a lapidary list of sources. The analysis of the historiography of the Russian-Turkish war of 1735-1739 demonstrates that Russian and foreign researchers ignore each other’s sources and literature.
2018
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