Russia and Turkey each followed divergent translations of the same 1774 treaty

Evidence

The treaty was drawn up in Italian, still at that time the main diplomatic language. The last article of the Treaty (Article XXVIII) says that the Treaty will be signed and sealed in two versions—one in Italian and Russian, the other in Italian and Turkish, so that each of the two signatory nations would have a version in their own language. The Italian version, which is the same for both, was obviously the binding one. Yet the Russians used the Russian version and the Turks used the Turkish version, and quite considerable discrepancies appear between the two, both nominally based on the same Italian text. — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 197 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Bilingual treaties with a shared master text spawned divergent national versions with serious discrepancies — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting…, 197

Broader Connections

• Bilingual treaties with a shared master text spawned divergent national versions with serious discrepancies #exemplifies (0.95) — Bernard Lewis, From Babel to Dragomans, 197