How to leave Constantinople

In order to leave Constantinople, besides the traveler’s passport issued by the Russian Consulate in Constantinople, one needs a visa of the country where one wants to travel, as well as the visas of the countries of transit. Before soliciting foreign visas one needs to get the latest exit visa at the Russian Consulate. ( Read more... )

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The Soviet journalist Lydia Seifullina spent the autumn of 1924 in Turkey. Her travel reports from the "land of the vanishing Islam" appeared in the Tiflis (now Tbilisi) newspaper Eastern Dawn ("Заря Востока") from August to December 1924. Seifullina's vivid travel writing so inspired the popular poet Sergey Esenin (then living in Tiflis on a ( Read more... )

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Tremendously useful and very slick poster with all the buildings along Istiklal in Istanbul, created by Işıl Döneray of Bilgi University:


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“Thus we did approach by sea, like in old times, to watch all these things unfold.”


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Bureau de la Presse-Russe à Constantinople // Bureau of the Russian Press in Constantinople // Бюро русской печати в Константинополе


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In 1922, the Russian artist Eugene Lanceray traveled in Anatolia, where he sketched and painted its architecture, landscape and people. From the resulting 150+ artworks he selected about 60 for an illustrated travel diary. But its publication was continuously delayed because of the high cost of the lithographic process, some of which the artist had ( Read more... )