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Published by: Institute of History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Volume 15 Issue 2 2026

Scholars, Agents, Adventurers: HHR 2026 2 cover1
Gathering Information in the Balkans

Gábor Demeter and Katalin Schrek
Special Editors of the Thematic Issue

Contents

Articles

Vasily B. Kashirin
Lieutenant Colonel Nazar Karazin: An Adventurer in the Service of Catherine II, and the Anti-Ottoman Conspiracy in the Shadow of the Monastery Walls   163

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Katalin Schrek
The Influence of Adam Czartoryski’s Foreign Policy Thinking and Agent Network on National Movements in Serbia and Bulgaria   188

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Aleksandar Zlatanov
The Establishment of the Eastern Agency in Istanbul as a Center for Polish Exile Missions in the 1830s–1840s Ottoman Balkans   221

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Imre Ress
The Transformation of the Government Intelligence Service in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy after the Compromise of 1867 (1867–1875)   248

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Simeon A. Simeonov
Surveilling the Danube: The Austrian Consulate in Vidin (1848–1878)   307

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Penka Peykovska
From the Hungarian Plains to the Balkans: János Asztalos’s Revolutionary Exile and the Idea of a Danubian Confederation (1869–1870)   326

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Gábor Demeter
Scholars as Agents: The Influence of Hungarian Explorers, Felix Kanitz, Adolf Strausz, and Lajos Thallóczy on Austria–Hungary’s Policy Towards the Balkan Peninsula (1870–1904)   348

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Nadezhda Vasileva
Sir Henry Drummond Wolff and British Strategy in Eastern Rumelia (1878–1879)   389

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Book Reviews

Myths and interpretations: Essays on the assessment of medieval Hungarian monarchs. Reviewed by Andrea Bianka Márton   417

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The rise and fall of the aristocracy in Hungary, 1700–1957. Reviewed by Gábor Koloh   421

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Comic Fascism: Ideology, Catholicism, and Americanism in Italian Children’s Periodicals. Reviewed by Christopher Wendt   427

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Notes on Contributors
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