In August 1745, the Janissary Karakulle hired the Cossack Yakov in Kamenka of Irakliivskiy kurin to transport the sheep to Perekop. Cossack Yakov stole two horses and a saddle and fled.
The Cossack Vasiliy Romanovskiy and his partner Cossack Yakov Sinenko traveled to Crimea for trade on five cargo carts. In Kamianoy backwater, ten Janissaries attacked them. Between the Janissaries were two famous Ali and Hasan. The Janissaries forced them to sell five carts loaded with butter for half the price the Cossacks refused. The Janissaries beat the Cossack Sinenko half to death and threatened the Cossack Romanovskiy with beatings upon his arrival in the Crimea. When Romanovskiy arrived in Perekop, he was beaten by janissary Benderniy at the urging of janissaries Ali and Hasan.
Zaporozhian Kosh sends two Cossacks, Yakov Voskoboynik and Ivan Baturinskiy, to Ochakov to buy horses. They started their journey in January; because of much snow, they stopped for a night in the house of Mehmed bölükbaşı of Ochakov, who knew the Russian language. He informed them that the new Sultan had sent a new ambassador to Russia. When they arrived in Ochakov, they met other Cossacks and Greek merchants.
This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No. 849911)
