When the Koshevoy and the Cossacks returned from the campaign and saw the defeat of their Aleshkovskaya Sych, he gathered the surviving Cossacks and set up the Sych again on the old met, on the Kamenk razk. This could be done because Kamenka, following the unsuccessful campaign of Peter the Great to Turshy in 1711, was annexed to the possessions of Turshy. It remained here until 1734, when during the reign of Anna Ivanovna, the Russian Empress, the Cossacks received relief for their betrayal of Tsar Peter and moved from the Crimean-Turkish possessions to Rosso, where they were settled in the Krasny Kut tract, above the Podpolnaya River. This Och received the name “New”.
Returning to their homeland, the Cossacks did not recognize their wild, free side: southern Rosaya, protected by a number of castle posts from the invasion of the Tatars, was populated non-stop; cities quickly arose and grew; the boundless steppes, where not so long ago no one except the Cossacks dared to appear, turned into rich fields before their eyes; There are much fewer animals and birds. Accustomed to freedom and arbitrariness, the Cossacks did not want and could not submit to the established order. They demanded the return of lands on which the settlers had already settled; disturbed them, patronizing and secretly helping the haidamaks (robber gangs). Endless complaints about the atrocities of the Cossacks, embittered and upset by the loss of their former significance and the steppes and plains dear to them, forced Empress Catherine the Great to destroy Novaya Sich,
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Moreover, after the Turkish War in 1774. ended with the annexation of the entire southern coast of the Black Sea, and therefore the Crimea, to the Ros, the Cossacks had no choice but to fight with the Kfm.
In the fatal year 1775 for the Cossacks, the governor of Novorossya (so the southern Rosaya was named) Holy Prince Potemkin occupied the “New Sfch” with Russian troops. From then on, Zaporozhye ceased to exist.
Part of the Zaporozhets, more than 1000 people, uspfl 6Ъto get out of Sjcha and get into the Turkish vladfey, where they succumbed to the Sultan; The empress allowed those who remained to settle in Novorosai on the rights of all the rest of her subjects. The Cossacks, who went to Turtspo, hoped that the Sultan would give them rich lands, but they were greatly mistaken in their calculations: they were settled in a swampy and sometimes sandy area at the mouth of the Danube, called the Budzhakovsky Sanjak.
Here, on the banks of the Danube, the Cossacks transferred all their ancient customs; On the ruins of the Talar town of Budzhak, a kosh was erected, and a marching church was erected here and the banner of the Zaporozhian army was kept, as well as the banners captured by the Cossacks in previous battles. Smokehouses soon grew around the church, forming a gathering area for the Rada. Budjak was surrounded by a rampart lined with cannons.
The Sultan left the internal structure of the kosh untouched, but subjugated the Cossacks to the Babadag Pasha and assigned them to the Silistrian district. To the Cossacks. they were given the right to freely engage in fishing, and for this they pledged to defend the mouth of the Danube and, in case of war, expelled, according to instructions, 1000 people.
The Koshevoy Ataman enjoyed the same rights as. and the sovereigns of Moldavia and Wallachia.
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hunting in the reeds of the Danube, as the main means of subsistence, the same continuous campaigns and battles: and here the Cossacks did not lose their former belligerence and courage.
Various wanderers like ours constantly came to Sofch one by one, and, despite the frequent campaigns and orders of the Sultan, the number of Cossacks did not decrease, but constantly increased.
In 1820, an uprising of Greeks, Moldavians and Vlachs broke out in Tursh; Skripfiya heart, bound by an oath in Brnost and seduced by the commonwealth to receive as a reward for the successful military rays of the earth, which is Budzhak; The Cossacks agreed to go on a campaign. against the United French people. He was Koshevym at that time. Ataman Moroz.
Shortly before the Cossacks set out on a campaign to Izmail, where several Cossacks were sent to purchase supplies, a young Cossack, a native of the Poltava province, Zolotonoshka district of the village of Melnikov, Osip Gladky, accosted them. This young man in all respects resembled the type of a real Cossack of old time: he was a handsome man, 25 years old, slender, tall, with a smart, open look, with a firm and even gait. Something decisive and commanding was visible throughout Gladky’s entire figure; he was an excellent shooter, an excellent horseman, deftly steered, and was brave and calm in battle.