Catherine II the Great16 July 1774
Moldova and Walachia were restored to the suzerainty of the sultan, but Russia obtains the right of intervening with the Sublime Porte (the sultans court) on behalf of those two principalities.
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Moldova and Walachia were restored to the suzerainty of the sultan, but Russia obtains the right of intervening with the Sublime Porte (the sultans court) on behalf of those two principalities.
Proclaimed Protectress of the Christians in the Balkans.
Russia gains access to the Black Sea & to the Straits.
Russia gains the Steppes from Turkey.
The Crimea gains its independence.
The Treaty of Kutchuk cedes Kerch and several other Black Sea ports in the Crimea to Russia and declared the rest of the khanate of Crimea independent.
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