Russian Military Presence and Colonisation of Zaporizhian Host (Orel-Samara Region) in the Age of New Sich (1734–1775)
Russian Military Presence and Colonisation of Zaporizhian Host (Orel-Samara Region) in the Age of New Sich (1734–1775)
Author(s): Oleksandr D. SUKHOMLYNSubject(s): Local History / Microhistory, Military history, 18th Century, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: Zaporizhian Host; Southern Ukraine; sloboda; colonisation; confessional census; Russian strongholds;
Summary/Abstract: This article considers general course of the region’s settlement and the process of creating slobodas in the vicinity of Russian strongholds, and the colonisation efforts (state and private) undertaken by the Russian administration on the basis of micro-historical approach. Analysis of documents on the census proves that it was the Zaporizhian elites, and not the Russian strongholds, that had a fundamental impact on the process of settlement of Zaporizhia in the 1740s and 1760s. Attempts to control the slobodas, situated near the strongholds, by the Russian administration and attempts to extend power to Zaporizhian subjects were not successful.
Journal: Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, sectio F – Historia
- Issue Year: 74/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 183-212
- Page Count: 30
- Language: English