Hatice Turhan: Historical novel: Book 3: Sultana-Ukrainian - patroness of the Cossacks

The mother of one of the descendants of the famous Roxolana was a Ukrainian woman from Podillya - Nadiya, who was named Hatice Turhan in the harem of Sultan Brahim the Mad. She lived in the turbulent years of the mid-seventeenth century, full of uprisings in the provinces of the Ottoman Empire, the riots of the Janissaries in Constantinople (now - Istanbul). Unfortunately, this sultan is little known in Ukraine. Candidate of Art History, author of popular science books "Roxolana: Myths and Realities" (2015, 2nd ed. 2016), "Letters of Roxolana: Love and Diplomacy" (2017), "Women's Sultanate: Power and Love" (2019) Alexander Jokingly, she wrote a three-part novel about Hatice Turhan based on historical facts, archival materials, and research by Turkish, American, and Western European scholars. Hetman Petro Doroshenko not only received the protectorate of her son, Mehmed the Fourth, but also joined forces with him to march on Kamyanets (now Kamyanets-Podilsky) and Khotyn in 1672-1673. He was succeeded by Hetman Yuri Khmelnytsky. The Ottomans ruled in Podolia and after Hatice Turhan's death until 1699. The last years of her life were spent in confrontation with her daughter-in-law, Haseki Gulnush, from whom she defended her stepsons Suleiman and Ahmed, who were the first heirs to the Ottoman throne. Valide Turhan is also known as a great philanthropist. After the construction of the grand New Mosque in Constantinople, she took care of the fate of pilgrims to Mecca and Medina and built a mosque in honor of her brother Yusuf in the area where the Bosphorus flows into the Black Sea.

which is a real pilgrimage among the Turks, who greatly honor the memory of it.

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