The topic of the article is the capture of the main city of the first Turkish vilayet in Hungary, its former capital Buda, by the allied Christian troops in 1686. The purpose of this article is to examine this outstanding event not through the eyes of the victors, but through the eyes of the defeated. Those who were not the soldiers who defended the fortress with weapons in hand, or the commanders who experienced the failure of this military campaign, but the defenseless city dwellers who were saving their lives, the lives of their loved ones, their homes and property, and their names. Their fates are known mainly from the reports of the victors. Such information though used in this article still represents a view from the outside and shows the tragedy experienced by the inhabitants of Buda one-sidedly. The core of the article is based on the so-called «Buda Chronicle» by Isaac Schulhof, a local resident of Jewish origin, who endured the siege and final assault on Buda with maximum personal losses. This chronicle reflects the personal view on the events of one of the residents of the city, who was considered hostile both by the liberators and the people who inhabited it.
Tatiana Pavlovna Gusarova, doctor of History, assistant professor, Medieval History Department, Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov (119234, Rossiya, Moskva, Lomonosovskiy prospekt, 27/4);gusarova174@yandex.ru
