Peace of Constantinople (1879)

Signing of the Peace of Constantinople on January 27, 1879. This painting is in the Panorama Military History Museum, Pleven, Bulgaria
Painting by N. Rusev (Varna, Bulgaria), depicting the signing of the Treaty of Constantinople in 1879

The 1879 Peace of Constantinople (Turkish: İstanbul Antlaşması or İstanbul Barışı, Russian: Константинопольский мир) reached between the Russian and Ottoman empires was a treaty signed on February 8, 1879 in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul, Turkey). Aleksey Lobanov-Rostovsky, Russian ambassador to Sultan Abdul Hamid II, and the Ottoman Minister of Foreign Affairs, Alexander Karatheodori Pasha, and Ali Pasha, the Minister presiding over the Council of State of the Ottoman Empire, were those present to sign the agreement. It is a direct continuation of the Treaty of San Stefano.