ULOGA SEVASTOPOLJA U PRODORU NA MEDITERAN OD NJEGOVOG OSVAJANJA DO NOVOG RUSKO-OSMANSKOG RATA 1787. GODINE
ROLE OF SEVASTOPOL IN RUSSIA’S BREAKTHROUGH TO MEDITERRANEAN FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO NEW RUSSIAN-OTTOMAN WAR (1787)

Summary/Abstract: Russian annexation of Crimea in 1783 (populated mostly by Tatar population) started the realisation of the integration of “New Russia” into administrative system, which was conducted mostly in accordance with plans and recommendations of Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin. His efforts led to Sevastopol becoming a naval base, which called for hiring a significant number of workers in the period from 1783 to 1787. Colonisation policy which accompanied these efforts did not yield significant results during its first years. In order to show power over “newly conquered territories”, a visit of Catherine II to Sevastopol was organised in 1787. Demonstration of power, which was supposed at the same time to display the success of Russia in Crimea, soon after the beginning of the new Russian-Ottoman was 1787–1791., indicated the main problem of such politics. Communication with the Mediterranean still was impossible, and will remain so until the moment when the Porte, pressured by the European public, decided to open up straits for navigation.

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