Synonym of collapse. As Catherine II for her own ambitions annexed Crimea, and the peninsula brought only suffering to her successors

When Catherine II and Prince Potemkin annexed Crimea, they hoped that the peninsula would bring Russia glory and domination on the Black Sea. However, these plans were not fulfilled "now, what is your own, and what is the wart on the nose," - said Grigory Potemkin in correspondence in 1782, the Russian Empress Catherine II, pushing it to new territorial acquisitions. And in the same message: "The briefing of the Crimea is reinforced, we cannot take you, and only strangers are delivered.

" In April 1783, Shakin-Gerai, a pro-Russian Khan of Crimea, formally independent from Turkey and Russia in the Cychuk-Kaynardzhian peace in 1774, signed the renunciation. And Catherine II issued a manifesto on the accession of Crimea and Kuban lands to the Russian Empire. Yes, in fact, the Russian "exposure" of the peninsula began. Potemkin, persuading Catherine to join Crimea, pressed two arguments: moral - "glory", and strategic - leadership in the Black Sea.

"Believe me, you will receive this acquisition of immortal glory as no sovereign in Russia," the prince of the Empress wrote. - This glory will pave the way to another and more glory: the domination in the Black Sea will also be obtained with Crimea. You will depend on the passage of the Turks and feed them or starve. " These promises of Potemkin were a crane in the sky. The "glory" of the Empress was created by court subordinates, not imagining where the Crimea is.

Many of them even took the peninsula in 1787, overcoming the incredibly difficult way. But in the people "glory" Kateryna received not because of Crimea - why did he, the people? The parable of the tongues in Russia and beyond was the sexual insatiasis of the Empress. And the "details" about it was told by the same retinue that, as it is found, and makes kings. Potemkin was a civilian queen. According to some reports, they were even secretly conquered.

In letters, Kateryna addresses Prince "Batya", "Batyushka", "My Sudar" and she writes as a wife who is waiting for her husband from the war. And Potemkin's perseverance regarding the conquests in the Black Sea was also explained by the fact that he dreamed of arranging his personal kingdom somewhere here. And Catherine allegedly did not mind. Therefore, the then annexation of Crimea was also a family matter. The domination of the Black Sea was also an impossible dream.