Русија и Дубровник почетком ХVIII века
Russia and Dubrovnik in The Beginning of The Xviii Century

Summary/Abstract: The strategic location of Dubrovnik was the reason for the strongly expressed interest in it on the part of Turkey, Austria and Venice, and also, from the end of the XVII century, on the part of Russia. The ties with the Dubrovnik Republic in the first decades of the XVIII century were a part of Russia’s attempts to play a significant role in the political life of Europe. During that time the Ottoman Empire and its European domains, as well as the Mediterranean, represented a knot of interests and problems to the backdrop of the entire political environment. Dubrovnik was a willing participant in the international affairs but it also started to ever so often attract Russia’s attention as an object of its foreign policy. The relations between the enormous Eurasian empire and the small Adriatic republic were measured first of all by the assistance to the Russian delegation in Constantinople, which was provided by some individuals. Some of them made a significant contribution to the establishment and implementation of the Russian policy in the Mediterranean and towards the Ottoman Empire and the Christians in its European domains – the Dubrovnik consuls from the Barca family, Sava Ragusinski, Florio Beneveni and others. Each one of them took part in the solution to the complicated political and diplomatic problems, which had brought the two empires to a standstill on the brink of war. Ragusinski and Beneveni were credited also as Russian diplomats in Asia as well as with the solution of certain domestic issues. However, the relations between Russia and Dubrovnik remained generally superficial and only become active towards the end of the century as a result of events in Europe and the Mediterranean.

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