The monograph is the first scientific work in domestic and foreign historiography devoted to the problem of formulating the institutional views of the Russian civil and military bureaucracy on the nature of threats to the national security of the Russian Empire in Balkasia, uniting a wide geopolitical space - the Balkans, the Caucasus, Central and Western Asia. The book is designed for historians, political scientists, specialists dealing with the problems of the Balkan Peninsula, the Caucasus, Central and Western Asia.