Forced Settlement of Novorossiya and Crimea in the Second Half of the 1770s and 1780s, and Attempts to Stop It (as Exemplified by Poland)

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DOI :

https://doi.org/10.12775/SDR.2025.EN9.02

Mots-clés

Crimea, Novorossiya, Russo-Turkish wars, Poland, Russia, Catherine the Great, Grigory Potemkin, Potemkin villages

Résumé

The term Novorossiya was introduced in Russia in the eighteenth century to describe newly acquired, sparsely populated territories in the south, seized mainly during wars with the Ottoman Empire. Although Russian historiography perpetuated the image of voluntary settlement of the region, the article demonstrates that this settlement was often forced, through the abduction and resettlement of thousands of people from countries neighbouring Russia, including the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Biographie de l'auteur

Adam Danilczyk, Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences

Adam Danilczyk – PhD, researcher (since 2009) at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences, employed as an assistant professor at the Department of 20th Century History/Laboratory of Eastern European History and Studies on 19th- and 20th-Century Empires of the Institute of History, Polish Academy of Sciences. Research interests: Polish-Russian relations in the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries; Russian imperialism in the 18th and 19th centuries; diplomacy in the second half of the 18th and the first half of the 19th centuries; the history of Lithuania; military affairs; and source editing.

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MNK Biblioteka Czartoryskich (MNK The Czartoryski Library) 735, 929

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Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej

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2026-01-17

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DANILCZYK, Adam. Forced Settlement of Novorossiya and Crimea in the Second Half of the 1770s and 1780s, and Attempts to Stop It (as Exemplified by Poland). Studia z Dziejów Rosji i Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej. Online. 17 janvier 2026. Vol. 60, no. 3, pp. 43-64. [Accessed 26 mars 2026]. DOI 10.12775/SDR.2025.EN9.02.

Numéro

Vol. 60 No 3 (2025): Special Issue

Rubrique

FACES AND METAMORPHOSES OF RUSSIAN EMPIRES (333 YEARS: 1689–2022)

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