Posts from Crimea

I recommend reading the history, and not just in relation to Crimea, but also of the entire southeast of Ukraine.

You invite others, but will you go yourself?

Killer Instincts,
what's wrong with that?
What do the French have to do with it? I didn't understand that part.

Under Catherine, this entire region, along with Crimea, was called Taurida. It was conquered from the Turks and the Crimean horde (which at that time was still called that – the last echo of the great Golden Horde) by the most brilliant Prince Potemkin (for this service, he received the addition to his surname – Taurichesky) together with Suvorov. And not only did he conquer it, but he also developed it, created many cities (by the way, the southeast of Ukraine at that time was a desolate, sparsely populated steppe), and essentially laid the foundation for the modern southeast of Ukraine. In doing so, he eliminated the real military threat not only to the entire Russian Empire but also, in particular, to Ukraine, which was the first to be in danger from Turkish and Tatar raids. Study history, not the hysteria of modern fascists.

Under Catherine, this entire region, along with Crimea, was called Taurida. It was conquered from the Turks and the Crimean horde (which was still called that at the time – the last echo of the great Golden Horde) by the brilliant Prince Potemkin (who received the addition to his surname – Tavrichesky – for this service) together with Suvorov. And not only did they conquer it, but they also developed it, created many cities (by the way, the southeast of Ukraine at that time was a desolate, sparsely populated steppe), and essentially laid the foundation for the modern southeast of Ukraine. This eliminated the real military threat not only to the entire Russian Empire but also, in particular, to Ukraine, which was the first to be in danger during raids by the Turks and Tatars. Study history, not the hysteria of modern fascists.

Ukraine was part of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (a union of Poland and Lithuania, which merged as a result of the marriage of their rulers, with Poland playing the main role).

Dnaor, the Anglo-French did not capture Crimea. There was a completely different background. Namely, the war between Russia and Turkey, which threatened to strengthen the former and lead to the collapse of the latter. Our European colleagues did not really want a bunch of Slavic states to emerge in the Balkans and for the Empire to have undivided rule in the Black Sea, so they helped Turkey. And Crimea was just a convenient place for a landing.

Gur
I won't be able to answer that right away – it's something I've been interested in for a while. From memory, I'll add that after the collapse of Kievan Rus', part of the territory, now known as Ukraine, came under the control of Lithuania. However, this wasn't a major problem, as the Lithuanians treated the Ukrainians with loyalty. Until, as a result of a monarchical marriage, Lithuania united with Poland and the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was formed. If you want to clarify the details, read the history of Ukraine, both Soviet and pre-revolutionary authors, you can also delve into the history of Poland. Just don't read nationalists who lie without a twinge of conscience. For example, I have an entire bookshelf of books in Ukrainian, published in the USSR. And they shout from the rostrum of the Verkhovna Rada to the whole world that in those same years, the Ukrainian language was banned in the USSR.

I wrote that (I don't remember the reason - I'm too lazy to look it up). They only captured Sevastopol, Russia's main naval base on the Black Sea. But if Russia had been too weak, they wouldn't have stopped there.