This fundamental work, covering the 600-year history of the Ottoman state, from 1300 until the emergence of the Republic of Turkey, was published in New York in 1977 and brought the author, English writer, journalist and historian, Lord Kinross well-deserved success. The book, written in an accessible non-fiction form, will recreate the most complete, vivid and exciting picture of Turkish history. In Russia, "The Rise and Decline of the Ottoman Empire" is published for the first time. So detailed and thorough research on the history of Turkey in domestic literature has not yet been.