The military campaigns to Istanbul made by Ukrainian Cossacks at the first half of the XVII century (on the pages of the research periodical press of Russian Empire)
English version of the article.The first half of the XVII century defined active external activities of the Ukrainian Cossacks: War of the Rzeczpospolita (Lehistan), Moscovia, Moldova (Bogdan), Crimea. The Ottoman Empire was no exception. Boat campaigns to cities and fortresses Empire had considerable resonance in international politics and contemporaries of those events. The consequences of these campaigns were Ukrainian Cossacks Ottoman war with the Rzeczpospolita, attracting Cossack military alliances in Western Europe, participation in the Thirty Years' War. Despite the importance and resonance campaigns about who led them, progress marches, number and even the consequences of actions Cossacks today are not clarified. Most modern scholars are based on documents and interpretations have been published in magazines at the late nineteenth century. The purpose of this paper to find out what documents and views dominated the historical magazines relatively important campaigns to Istanbul as they are still today the only known in Ukrainian science. On the basis of these periodicals such as «Kiyv antiquity» (Kievskауa starina), «Magazine of the Ministry of National Enlightenment» (Jurnal Ministerstva Narodnogo Prosvetsheniya), «Russian Antiquity» (Russkaya starina), «Reserches of Nestor historical society» (Chteniya istoricheskogo obtshestva Nestora Letopistsa) and others, it can be argued that currently three known hiking Ukrainian Cossacks to Istanbul in the first half of the XVII century: 1617, 1619 and 1624 were the main authors of publications known Ukrainian and Russian historians V. Antonovich, M.Kostomarov, V. Istrin, A. Storozhenko, M.Markevych and other . We found out that the overwhelming majority of publications in referred magazines based on the same sources, the reading of which in the ХІХ century and at present differ. This opened a new field for discussions presented in this paper. Furthermore, an account of fragments Paper of these were published in periodicals. As a result of their analysis showed ...