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Matt Berry and Peter Capaldi give an incredible, hilarious reading.
In 1675, the Sultan of the #OttomanEmpire instructed his army to attack a fortress belonging to the Zaporozhian Cossacks. They were quickly and heavily defeated. Rather than surrender, the Sultan then wrote to the Cossacks and demanded that they submit to him. This fiery exchange was the result.
@Lamhfada@mastodon.ie I like that there is a painting of the Cossacks writing the reply https://www.arthistoryproject.com/artists/ilya-repin/reply-of-the-zaporozhian-cossacks/
@Lamhfada Lots of fun! I’ve seen the painting in St Petersburg, great to hear the dramatic reading of what it was based on. Seemingly this letter is a forgery / parody, some 17th century propaganda. The Wikipedia article comes armed with a bunch of scholarship cited at the end: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correspondence_between_the_Ottoman_sultan_and_the_Cossacks
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Not real correspondence, but great fun all the same.