When the Russian invasion began, the Cossacks broke the doors of the prison and released all prisoners; These later, throwing off their shackles, grabbed the first weapon they came across, scattered near the corpses, and completed the victory of the Cossacks. The corpses of the Turks soon covered the streets, squares and gardens; The Cossacks, maddened by the blood and wine they drank immediately at the fires, burst into all the houses, bringing with them the inevitable death of the women and men: they did not touch the women and women. The musket shots became rarer and rarer, blood flowed copiously onto the ground from the Cossack sabers; Apparently, the city’s resistance was falling by the minute. The Koshevoi slowly rode through the streets on a beautiful con in expensive harness taken from the stables of rich pashas. The Cossacks enthusiastically greeted their “father ataman.” To the main square of the toroda, the Cossacks carried and carried rich booty on captured horses; Marking for all the Christians who died at the hands of the Basurman, the Cossacks did not forget themselves: everything valuable and lost from the fire was dragged into a common heap; the locks of the shops were broken, and the goods arrived in bulk in the “kopt”—the booty was considered a common asset. Inherently belonged to the Cossack only that which he found on the enemy killed, i.e. orules, dress, rings, tsfki, money, etc.
Simultaneously with the beginning of the massacre in the city, part of the Cossacks on gulls, specially appointed, dBlala attacked the crowded ships in the harbor. Turkish, foreign galleys and other ships were burned and drowned; their defenders were beaten and their goods were plundered.
Having destroyed the city, the Cossacks took all the freed slaves and their loot onto the seagulls and unelevia ships and went back to sea.
It is difficult to say in what year exactly the naval campaigns of the Cossacks began: for a long time already a small party s B
Cossacks, while fishing in the estuary of the Dnfpra, went out to the open sea, where, on occasion, they attacked the merchant galleys of the Turks. From 1601 to 1612, every year the Cossacks captured several galleys; Since the next year 1613, the Cossacks began their more seaborne campaigns.
In 1613, the Cossacks went to sea 2 times and caused great devastation on the western coast of Crimea: the Turkish fleet blocked the Cossacks’ return route to the mouth of the Dnieper, but the Cossacks attacked the Turks at night, took 6 galleys, and sank the rest of the shallow ships. In 1614, the Cossacks on forty seagulls, numbering two thousand people, deceived the vigilance of the Turks, slipped into the Black Sea and, while the Turks were waiting for them near the coast of Crimea, swam across the sea in a direct direction to the south, attacked the city of Sinop, the most flourishing city of Lesser Azsh at that time, captured the old castle, slaughtered its garrison, they robbed and burned the arsenal (a warehouse of military supplies and weapons), as well as ships in the pier and all Muslim houses; the inhabitants were massacred, many Christian captives were freed from captivity and left with rich booty, before the inhabitants of the surrounding villages had time to gather to repel them.
Since the Turks took possession of Sinop, he has not seen any enemies in his forces; Therefore, the Sultan of Turkey was terribly upset when he learned about the Sinop pogrom, and ordered the destruction of the Cossacks during their return. The Cossacks, foreseeing that they would be guarded on the Dnfir, moved with great caution, found out exactly where the Turks were located, landed on the shore in another area, dragged their seagulls along the dry path to lower them into the Dnfpr above the place where the Turks were waiting for their passage. The land movement of seagulls was completed
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with such dexterity and speed that the Turks managed to attack only the last Cossacks, killing 200 people and capturing 20.
The next year, 1615, the Cossacks, already on 80 seagulls among five thousand people, went out into the Black Sea, and this time their courage surpassed all limits: they appeared under the walls of Constantinople itself (Constantinople), the capital of the Turkish Sultan, “fumigated,” as they put it, “the city with musket smoke,” and frightened the Sultan, burned the two piers of Mizevna and Arhoki in the vicinity of the capital, plundered many of the richest country palaces and houses of Turkish dignitaries along the banks of Boseor (strait) and went home.