LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Abiejų Tautų Respublika; Lietuvos Didžioji Kunigaikštystė; Osmanų imperija; Diplomatija; Užsienio politika. Keywords: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwelth; The Great Duchy of Lithuania; The Ottoman Empire; Diplomacy; Foreign policy.
ENAn important source for researching the Polish-Ottoman contacts are the jarlyks of the Tatar khans, letters from the commandants of the Khotyn fortress and letters from the Turkish pasha, intended for the Polish authorities. A large number of archival materials on this issue are being kept in the archives and state depositories of Poland, as well as in the archives and libraries of the Russian Federation. Vilnius (Vilna), when it was the part of Poland, was the exact place, where three large collections of oriental manuscripts were kept. Moreover, valuable historical documents concerning the Turkish-Polish-Lithuanian and Crimean-Polish relations were kept in the Library of Vilnius University. This article is devoted to research in the field of historical ties between the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Ottoman Empire. Highlighting the issue, the authors of this article appealed to the documents stored in the State Archive of the Republic of Turkey. The transliterated text of the Petition (1761) of the great noblemen of Rzeczpospolita to the Highest Padishah, as well as the translation of the text to the modern Turkish and Russian with a commentary, are being published for the first time in this article. [From the publication]