The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq: A Biography, Paperback - Edward Seymour Forster

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In 1716, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire. Montagu ac...

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Sergei Eisenstein was born in Riga in 1898. His father was a Jew of German origin who had converted to Russian Orthodoxy and who passed himself off...

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