In XVIII-XIX centuries, in different times in Turkey emigrated from the persecution of the tsarist authorities is also a lot of other Russian subjects, mostly old believers and followers of different sectarian teachings: don Cossacks-nekrasovtsy Cossacks, Lipovans, etc. They settled in various provinces of the Ottoman Empire. This caused reprisals against the remaining Ports of the Cossacks. When in 1828 broke another Russo-Turkish war, a detachment of the Danubian Cossacks under command of ataman Osip completely Smooth sided with Russia. Russia has consistently led the campaign to entice the Cossacks ago. In 1778 the Sultan took the Cossacks who emigrated to their citizenship, relegating them for the settlement of the lands South of the Danube. In the Ottoman Empire lived many of the descendants of the Cossacks abolished by Catherine II in 1775, Zaporizhzhya Sich. Now, with the beginning of the Eastern war, it seemed, it was time to implement his plan. To protect yourself from prosecution, Tchaikovsky decided to officially convert to Islam and allegiance to the Sultan. The Russian government even before the war was anxiously watching for his activity and demanded that Turkey issue. One of the immigrants, Michael czajkowski in 1831 came up with a plan to arm Russia Turkish citizens from the former Cossacks. They settled near Istanbul in the area that today is called in their memory Polonezkoy, where the leader of the Polish Diaspora Adam Czartoryski in 1842 bought land for their agricultural colonies. In Turkey also there were many Polish immigrants. Polish patriots wanted to gain independence, defeating Russia with the help of the armies of the Anglo-Franco-Turkish coalition. The beginning of the Eastern war was seen it also with great enthusiasm.

Meanwhile, the Slavic card was played against Russia.Īfter the suppression by Russia of the Polish uprising of 1830-1831, in Europe settled quite large and politically active Polish Diaspora. When Russian troops occupied vassal to the Sultan Danubian principalities (now Romania), their command was sent to Bulgaria and Serbia leaflets with appeals to revolt against Turkey. They dreamed about what this war will start the “liberation” of the Balkan Slavs under the Ottoman yoke and connecting them “under the scepter of the Russian Orthodox Tsar”. Russian Slavophiles welcomed the start of the Eastern war (the Crimean gonna call it later) of Russia with Turkey. History 15/03/20 As the Cossacks-immigrants fought for the Turks in the Crimean war

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