count grigory potemkin wrote to his crowned wife, his empress, and great mother to his historians, to ink on paper. the grandiose grave of the one who made the annexation of crimea to the russian empire inevitable was conceived, crimea giray hated russia fiercely and actively, refined, fierce, intelligent enemy. he dreamed of reaching petersburg to dismember russia, and in 1769 he made his most powerful raid , his horde, his troops in the direction of the font. where is today, which is on everyone's lips today bangnut this is a slavic-serbsk next to the current lugansk and from there 20,000 slaves, involuntarily 20,000 people. and this was, probably, the last straw that overflowed the cup to taunt the crimean khan. europeans. there would not have been this campaign, provoked to a large extent, by prussia and france . by the way, in the campaign of the crimea, the hero was accompanied by a french resident. yes, and this would not have happened. why? because, uh, at that time , in principle, as it were, well, there was some kind of neutrality , as it were, a balance of relations, crimea