A Turkish official was itching to know the secret behind a Russian slave girl’s personal charm.

A survivor of the infamous massacre of Chios in 1821 goes to Marseilles, but discovers he has not entirely left the Turks behind.

In 1910, Constantine Zervakos, a young monk from the Greek island of Paros, found himself charged with espionage.

John Kapodistrias had an instinct for how a long-oppressed people might think.

The Persian King felt that a lord of his majesty should not have to take any nonsense from an overgrown river.

Hospitality and sympathy, but no help - the Byzantine Emperor learns a bitter lesson about western diplomacy.