title: Jan Potocki’s Unstable Turkeys
abstract: This study presents two distinct moments in Jan Potocki’s engagement with Turkey, separated by more than twenty years. The first concerns his journey to Egypt in 1784, when the 23-year-old stopped for two months in Constanti­nople, a formative experience that nurtured his enduring passion for the Orient. The second moment occurs in 1806–1807, when, serving as an adviser to the administration of Tsar Alexander I and as a knowledgeable connoisseur of the Near East, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, 
journal: Perspektywy Kultury