The Bakhchisaray peace, signed in 1681, became one of the many treaties in the history of the difficult relations between Russia and Turkey. This document consolidated the new political order in Eastern Europe and predetermined the inevitability of future conflicts between the two great powers.
Signing Prerequisites
On January 23, 1681, the Bakhchisaray peace was signed between Russia, Turkey and the Crimean Khanate . He ended the long nine-year war in the Northern Black Sea region. The first attempts to stop the bloodshed were made by the Russian kingdom in 1678. Then the nobleman Vasily Daudov went to Istanbul. He was supposed to persuade the Turkish sultan to put pressure on the Crimean khan dependent on the Ottoman Empire and persuade him to begin peace negotiations with the Russian and Ukrainian Cossacks.
Last but not least, the Bakhchisaray world was postponed time after time because of the enormous distances that the ambassadors had to overcome. Complex tripartite diplomacy also affected. First, in 1679, the Turkish vizier Mehmed IV gave the go-ahead to the world . Only after that did the new Russian embassy leave for Crimea to Murad Girey.
Long negotiations
In the summer of 1680, clerk Nikita Zotov and stolnik Vasily Tyapkin arrived in Bakhchisarai. A serious obstacle to the settlement of relations between the warring countries was Ivan Samoilovich - hetman of the Zaporizhzhya Army. Before leaving, Vasily Tyapkin hardly persuaded him to agree to new borders along the Dnieper. After the Cossacks accepted the conditions, accepting the Bakhchisarai peace became a matter of time.
In December, a draft contract was sent to Istanbul. The Turkish sultan agreed on the conditions and made it clear to the Crimean Khan that it was necessary to accept the Russian proposal. According to the Bakhchisaray peace, a 20-year truce ensued. The parties also agreed to exchange prisoners.
Document Terms
The agreement signed in Bakhchisarai had serious political consequences. The Russian delegation for a long time tried to persuade the opposite side to completely transfer the Zaporizhzhya Sich to the Tsar . However, the Turks refused to make concessions in this matter. Thus, on Russia on the right bank of the Dnieper there was only Kiev and its neighboring environs.
Now, after a long war, the status of Right-Bank Ukraine has become clear and definite. The Turks began active economic development of this region, although the Russian ambassadors sought recognition of the region as a neutral zone. Tyapkin's exhortations proved futile. Ottoman fortresses and settlements began to appear on the Right Bank.
Consequences of the world
Soon after the signing of the important document, it became clear that the war between the troubled neighbors stopped for a short while. At the end of 1681, the Polish authorities informed the Russian tsar that the Turkish sultan was preparing for another attack on Austria. A new coalition has begun to take shape in Europe. It included all the Christian powers adjacent to the Ottoman Empire and frightened by its ongoing onslaught on the Old World.
Although Turkey managed to conquer Right-Bank Ukraine, the policy of its local authorities led to the weakening of the position of the Ports in this region. The new order affected Christian residents right after the Bakhchisaray peace was signed. The terms of the agreement allowed the Sultan to begin an Islamization policy in Right-Bank Ukraine. The local population in large numbers fled from the power of Turkey and its vassal of Moldova. The excessive rigidity with which the Ottomans tried to gain a foothold on the Right Bank, played a cruel joke with them. Although at the end of the XVII century Turkey reached the maximum of its territorial expansion, it was after the Bakhchisarai peace that its gradual decline began. Ottoman dominant status in the Black Sea region encroached on gaining strength in Russia.