the third year, catherine ii publishes the famous manifesto, its author was georgy potemkin, for which title of holy prince of tauride after signing the manifesto on the annexation of crimea, russia became a full-fledged black sea power catherine's april manifesto with full right can be called the open door of the black sea from this moment the prosperity of the crimean peninsula and kherson begins, the city of a fortress on the right bank of the dnieper, where shipyards were built and opened admiralty to develop the land, empress of novorossiya, entrusted to prince potemkin, we allocate huge sums from the treasury for improvement on the territory of the tauride province, which was actively settled during catherine's times. we have a gigantic number of nationalities and peoples living here. there are various documents. about the crimean germans about the greeks, bulgarians, czechs, and other nationalities. yes, i moved. yes, they now accepted, most often, they had to submit various documents in the russian one category nationality was not in official documents indicated religion citize