Crimean Tartars

There were several other nations like this, the Crimean Tartars, the Volga Germans who had been the Volga.

Gulag: A History 2003

The ones you throw in by the thousands, like Crimean Tartars … '

Gorky Park Smith, Martin Cruz, 1942- 1981

In 1586 the southern frontiers of Moscovy were fortified, and Kursk became one of the principal places on that line of defence against the Crimean Tartars and the Poles.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

This name points back to ancient times when in that place the Slavs had to repel the attacks of the Crimean Tartars and other Mongolian tribes, and were obliged to cut trees and make barriers which formed a natural and impenetrable defence against the enemies 'hordes.

Leo Tolstoy: Childhood and Early Manhood 1906

There were the "Free Cossacks," located on the debatable ground between the fortified frontier of the agricultural steppe and marauding Crimean Tartars.

Influences of Geographic Environment On the Basis of Ratzel's System of Anthropo-Geography Ellen Churchill Semple 1897

The Poles eagerly joined the insurgents, and sent envoys to invite the Crimean Tartars to invade Russia from Tauride, while Poland and Livonia should assail the empire from the west.

The Empire of Russia 1841

In this war, the Crimean Tartars were crushed, and Russian influence crowded its way into the immense Crimean peninsula.

The Empire of Russia 1841

The tzar immediately commenced raising a large army, reinforced his garrisons, and sent a secret envoy to Tauride, to excite the Crimean Tartars to invade Poland on the south-east while Russia should make an assault from the north.

The Empire of Russia 1841

Here they were joined by a reinforcement of Crimean Tartars, consisting of forty thousand well-armed and veteran fighters.

The Empire of Russia 1841

_Crême de la crême_ -- the cream of Crimean Tartars!

Turandot: The Chinese Sphinx Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782