TRANS-DANUBE SICH AND COSSACK PARTICIPATION IN THE WARS AGAINST TURKEY IN LATE XVIII — EARLY XIX CENTURIES
The Trans-Danube Cossack troops stamp(early XIX century)
In 1775 the Russian Empire felt at last that the work of demounting the state system of Hetmanshchyna implemented for about a century had brought its fruit. The Tsar governors felt so confident in Ukraine that could openly stand against the Cossack state. That is, they managed to destroy the Zaporizhzhian Sich that remained a hostile military and political organization for the Russians. The Russian army invaded the territory of the Zaporizhzhian troops and ruined the Sich fortress.
However, it soon became clear that the Sich liquidation could not eliminate the Ukrainian Cossacks as a phenomenon. The Cossacks started to reloca
