2025. no 4. Kirill Kochegarov

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

Kirill Kochegarov
Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

Abstract. 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 was announced to them by Hussein Murawski bey, the governor of Gazikermen, the Ottoman fortress on the Lower Dniper. The Ottoman and Crimean diplomats decided to use such economic leverage to engage Zaporizhian Cossacks in separate agreements. It presumably caused unrest in Sich; Cossacks sent envoys to Murad Girey khan and then overthrew a koshevoy ataman, their commander. New appointed koshevoy ataman did not dare to keep separate ties with the khan and as his predecessor, asked the hetman and the Russian government to do their best to cancel the ban, which had been established by the Ottoman authorities. The Russian diplomacy had not any chance to do it immediately and that’s why kept Murawski’s ban as occasional violation of the peace treaty, promising to negotiate this issue in Turkey where Muscovite envoys were coming to.

Keywords: Zaporizhian Sich, Crimean Khanate, Hetman Ivan Samoilovich, Bakhchisaray truce, Murad Giray khan

For citation: Kochegarov K.A. Between Baturin and Bakhchisaray: The Zaporizhian Sich in the first months after the conclusion of the Russo-Crimean truce of 1681. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 68–98. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.4.68-98 (In Russian)

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About the author: Kirill A. Kochegarov – Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences (32A, Lenin Avenue, Moscow 119334, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-9877-7381; kirill-kochegarow@yandex.ru

Received 21.09.2025

Accepted 25.10.2025