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12020-04-09T21:29:38-04:00Russia goes to war18On October 6, 1768 Sultan Mustafa III imprisons Aleksey Mikhailovich Obreskov, Russia's representative in Constantinople. The act is a declaration of war.plain2020-04-10T17:02:25-04:0010-06-1768On October 6, 1768 Sultan Mustafa III imprisons Aleksey Mikhailovich Obreskov, Russia's representative in Constantinople. The act is a declaration of war.
The Russian-Ottoman war would last six years. It came to a close with the signing of a peace treaty (1774) that made Russia a Black Sea power and fundamentally altered the geopolitical balance of Eurasia.
