| Titre | Prélude au problème cosaque [À travers les registres de dommages ottomans des années 1545-1555] | |
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| Auteur | Gilles Veinstein | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 30, no 3-4, juillet-décembre 1989 Hommage à Alexandre Bennigsen | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | Articles |
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| Page | 329-361 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Gilles Veinstein, Prelude to the Cossack problem as seen through the Ottoman registers of damages of 1545-1555.
Settled as from the end of the fifteenth century on the northern coast of the Black Sea that they endeavoured gradually to control and to colonize, Ottomans will be constantly molested by attacks launched from the Polish-Lithuanian border. This article deals with incidents that occurred during the afore-mentioned decade. It is based on Ottoman sources preserved in Central Archives of Ancient Deeds in Warsaw, and most specifically on the nine registers of damages addressed by the Ottoman authorities to the Polish Crown in support of claims for compensation. It gives details on the nature and the contents of these registers of which the Abrahamowicz catalogue gives only regests. Information is drawn about the authors of these operations: border governors like Bernard Pretwicz or princes Fedor Sanguszko and Dimitri Wisnowiecki, and simple leaders of bands, direct forerunners of Cossacks. A typology of actions is also established, specifying raids against the city of Gankerman (Ochakov) and its suburbs, plunder of sheepfolds disseminated in the steppe and aggressions against travellers and isolated merchants ; also, the description of victims and analysis of spoils, comprising captives, cattle and handicraft wares, project a light on the social composition and the economic role of Ottoman establishments between the Dniester and the Dnieper, towards the middle of the sixteenth century. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1989_num_30_3_2197 |
