About the book: 2018 / The book offered to the reader’s attention is a documentary excursion into the times of the “new policy” of the Russian Empire in the Persian Gulf area - the “policy of action.” The array of previously unpublished documents from the “Arabian dossier” of the Archive of Foreign Policy of the Russian Empire (AFPRI) presented in it will introduce the inquisitive reader to the history of the establishment and work of Russian “diplomatic posts” in Arabia, Mesopotamia and Coastal Persia, with military diplomacy missions to the ports of the Persian Gulf ships of the Russian Navy. He will tell about the political, diplomatic, trade and commercial activities in this area of ​​the world of England and France, Russia and Germany. Informs about unknown and little-known memories, notes and notes, reports and reports of Russian scientists and travelers, merchants and manufacturers, captains of merchant and military ships about the sheikhdoms of Arabia, their rulers and peoples, customs and morals. Turning through the pages of this book, the reader will plunge into the times Turkish rule in Arabia and Mesopotamia; will visit Muslim pilgrims from Russia in Mecca and Medina, Najaf and Karbala; learns many interesting facts about the history of the Holy Cities of Sunni and Shiite Muslims and the shrines stored in them.