On March 20, 2013, Russian Ottoman studies suffered a heavy loss. Famous Georgian orientalist, Professor Mikhail Kharitonovich Svanidze has died at the age of 87. M. Kh. Svanidze was born in 1927. Surami in Georgia. After graduating from the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Tbilisi State University in 1950 with a degree in Turkish History, he entered the postgraduate course of the Institute of History of the Georgian Academy of Sciences, from which he graduated in 1953 and defended his PhD thesis. Until 1960, he worked as an associate professor at the Batumi State Pedagogical Institute (later-the University), and then as a chief researcher of the History Department of the Institute of Oriental Studies named after him. Academician G. Tsereteli of the Georgian Academy of Sciences in Tbilisi. Here M. Kh. Svanidze worked on the history of Turkey and the Middle East, studied and published sources on the history of Turkish-Georgian and Russian-Turkish relations. In 1971, he defended his doctoral dissertation on "The history of Georgian-Ottoman relations in the XVI-XVIII centuries". At the same time, Mikhail Kharitonovich was a professor at the Tbilisi State University and the Tbilisi Institute of Asian and African Countries, and conducted fruitful scientific and pedagogical work among students and young researchers. Among his students are many Georgian Turkologists, whose names and works have received international recognition. Since the mid-1970s, for almost 20 years, M. Kh. Svanidze has been a regular participant of the" Barthold Readings " conferences on Oriental classics at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow and has worked closely with his colleagues in Moscow and St. Petersburg-orientalists. His works are distinguished by a fundamental approach to research page 210 written documentary sources, the ability to accurately determine the causal relationship between the information of documents and historical events. His talent as an ... Читать далее