Syria and Palestine under Turkish rule

Konstantin Mikhailovich Basil, popular in Russian literary circles of the 1930s of the XIX century. The author "Essays Constantinople", a prominent diplomat, friend N.V. Hogol, perhaps, the least known for his works about Syria. Meanwhile, the work of basil about Syria left a significant trail in science.
His book "Syria and Palestine under the Turkish government" was one of the first works in world literature on the new history of Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. Borrowing material from Arabic handwritten chronicles, European travels, using own observations, basil managed to fully and thoroughly illuminate the history of Syria XVI-XVIII centuries., Talented to outlines the events of the 1930s of the XIX century., Complex and stormy years of Syrian history and give them an analysis deeper than any of the foreign historians of the last century