Documents about the Nogai uprising of 1758

Based on archival sources, the conditions for the emergence of the Nogai rebellion in the summer-autumn of 1758 and the subsequent campaign of Nogai troops against Moldova, with the subsequent occupation of the Khan’s throne in Bakhchisarai by Crimea-Girey in the spring of 1759, are considered. Documents are published about the uprising of the Yedisan Nogai Horde against their Serasker Sultan due to the excess of his power; about the military skirmish between the Budzhatsky and Yedisan Nogai hordes; about the destruction of the Sultan’s and Khan’s villages in Moldova by the Nogais; about the involvement of Khan Arslan-Girey in the Tatar civil strife; about his inability to suppress the rebellion of the Edisans; about the growth of the uprising and the burning of four Budzhak villages; about sending the Rumelian Pasha with an army to help the Crimean Khan to suppress the uprising of the Yedisan Nogais; about the intention of the Nogais to transfer to Russian citizenship; about the appeal of the Turkish Sultan to the Russian government not to accept Nogais as citizens; on the removal of the Crimean Khan Halim-Girey from power by the Turkish Sultan and on the appointment of Crimea-Girey in his place; about the return to Crimea of troops who acted to suppress the uprising of the Yedisan Nogai Horde.