The book “European Vector of the Northern Azov in the Imperial Period: British Consular Reports about Italian Shipping” has been published

Victoria Konstantinova, Igor Lyman and Ignatova Anastasiya. European Vector of the Northern Azov in the Imperial Period: British Consular Reports about Italian Shipping (Berdyansk: Tkachuk O.V., 2016), 184 p.

The book is dedicated to contacts of the Northern Azov with European countries at the period between the Eastern (Crimean) War and the First World War. Following the historiographical tradition, the authors distinguish Northern, Ukrainian, Azov with its port-cities of Berdyansk and Mariupol from Eastern, Russian, with port-cities of Taganrog and Rostov-on-Don. The focus is on the two European nations who actively participated in the trade on the Sea of Azov – the Italians and the British. The attention is concentrated on describing the Italian shipping by Consuls of Great Britain, who perceived the Italians as one of their main competitors in the region. Along with the authors’ researches and statistical tables, this book includes extracts from reports of British Consuls of the second half of the 19th – the early 20th century.
The book can be seen here