Between Baturin and Bakhchisaray: The Zaporizhian Sich in the first months after the conclusion of the Russo-Crimean truce of 1681
Journal: Crimean Historical Review
Year: 2025

The struggle over the territory of the Zaporizhian Sich between the Ottoman Empire, the Crimean Khanate and Russia continued even after the armistice in Bakhchisaray was concluded. The khan and sultan refused to recognize the Russian tsar’s sovereignty over the Sich despite claims of Russian envoys in Crimea. Hetman Ivan Samoilovich and the Russian government failed to keep this fact in secret from Zaporizhian Cossacks, who very soon faced a ban for hunting and fishing on the Lower Dniper, which