The Outcomes of the Russian-Turkish War of 1877-1878 for Serbia in the Russian Press

The article deals with the problem of gaining independence of the principality of Serbia in the Russian-Turkish war 1877-1878. In modern literature the war between the Russian empire and its allied Balkan states, on the one hand, and the Ottoman Empire, on the other, is viewed from the point of view of the main participants. It was the war caused by the rise of the national identity of the Christian citizens of the Ottoman Empire in the Balkans. Brutality, the April Uprising of 1876 in Bulgaria was suppressed with, caused sympathy for the position of Ottoman Christians in Russia and became a trigger for glorious pages of the young states’ Balkan history. The article considers the events with the Serbian participation in the liberation war through the pages of the Russian press. It describes all the vicissitudes of gaining Serbia’s independence from the Ottoman rule.