Prince Alexei Borisovich Lobanov -Rostovsky is a blacksmith of foreign policy

The book is dedicated to an outstanding figure in the diplomatic field, Prince Alexei Borisovich Lobanov-Rostovsky (1824-1896) His international activity as an ambassador to the most difficult political points at that time - Constantinople, Vienna, London - and as Minister of Foreign Affairs brought Russia fruitful results in the world arena. And he received the post of deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the face of complex restructuring of public institutions in the era of the "great reforms" of Emperor Alexander II, as well as the intellectual scale and tactical flexibility of the prince. Lobanov managed to conclude the Russian-Turkish final peace treaty of 1879, which became the result of the end of the war and gave Russia significant moral and material results, which laid the foundation for the autonomous principality of Bulgarian. In the research of the XX century. The name of the prince was almost not mentioned.
The book presents materials regarding different aspects of the outstanding personality of the prince - erudite, bibliophile, collector, genealogy and historian. For the first time, the memoirs of contemporaries about the diplomat, detailed latest research about him, and the first time of Lobanov’s publications in modern historical periodicals are first proposed. The book is intended for historians, culturalists and a wide range of readers