title: Exploring the Ottoman Empire
abstract: The article analyses for the first time the discourse related to Islam and the Ottoman Empire, the formation of which in Russia can be attributed to the last quarter of the seventeenth century. We assume that this discourse, which introduced religious terms and concepts poorly mastered by the tradition, was not something unified and monolithic at the initial stage. For a long time, the perceptions of Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Russia were fragmentary and incomplete. The cultural assimilatio
journal: Slovene