Ростислав Фадејев о руско-српској савезничкој акцији ратне 1877. године
Rostislav Fadeyev about Serbo-Russian Allied Action in the War Year of 1877

Summary/Abstract: The letter of Rostislav Andreyevich Fadeyev sent to Illarion Ivanovich Vorontsov on 12/24 September 1877 in Bucharest is valuable for the following reasons: 1) the possibility of Serbo-Russian actions against Turkey in 1877/78; 2) the background and consequences of the visit of Prince Milan Obrenović to Tsar Alexander II in Ploiesti in June 1877; 3) divided views in terms of alliance with Serbia in the Russian civilian and military circles, but also within various military instances; 4) Serbia’s delay in renewing the war against Turkey by December 1877. Fadeyev, like the Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolaevich, chief commander of the Danube Army, considered that Gorchakov for the sake of an agreement with Austria-Hungary unjustifiably dismissed Serbs, who were necessary and useful in the Russian struggle against the Turks. Already in August 1877, he had solid evidence for it, when the Russian offensive stopped for several months (July–December 1877) at Plevna – the Turkish fortress immediately after the Romanian border, near Nikopol. That event activated plans for joint Serbian-Russian actions and realism with delay, after Serbia declared war on Turkey, on 13 December 1877.

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