The Pearl in the Tsar’s Crown
Journal: Oxford University Press eBooks
Year: 2015

Abstract This chapter describes the sub-groups of Crimean Tatars that the Russian Empire encountered living in the territory of Crimea after its annexation into the Russian Empire during the eighteenth century. It also briefly examines how these communities gradually transformed into a Muslim minority in a “Slavic sea” as Russian migration accelerated. Led by Tsarina Catherine the Great, the Russians began to explore the newly-acquired land in 1783, the year when the province fell into Russian h