"We did more in 1792 and 1794. The courtiers who had been abandoned land in the governments of Ecathérinlaw and Tauris, in the Kuban and in the vicinity of Otchakoff were allowed to remove all the families of peasants they could seize, as in Volhynia in Podolia, the conquest which they worked then. It brings to more than 20 000 families who were uprooted from their homes and trails or in groups or individually, in the deserts we wanted to populate. Several tribes Cossacs were forcibly removed. At about the same time, two French émigrés, MM. Clermont-Tonnerre and Raulin Belval, also obtained land in the Crimea. As the country was devoid of inhabitants, was allowed the new owners of the easement osumettre individuals who would settle there. Most of those who came seemed to tear himself from the yoke and were not willing to receive it again. Moreover, the French were not unique to business which they are destined. Tired of their cruel and dangerous work, they gave up their slaves and their lands, and returned to St. Petersburg. "
M.-P.-D. Passenans, Russia and slavery in their dealings with European civilization and the influence of slavery on the domestic life of Russians, their civil existence, morality and politics, and the destiny of Europe , Volume I, Paris, Pierre Blanchard, 1822 , p. 54-55.
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