Under the peace treaty between Russia and Turkey, held in Iasi, 29 December 1791, the river Kuban was defined boundary between the two powers. While on the left side of the river lived the Circassians of different tribes that were regarded as subservient to the Sultan, on the right side of the same desert, in 1792 settled switched from the Black Sea Cossacks of the Dnieper, which the Empress Catherine 2, letter from 30 June 1792 Kuban asked to guard the border from attacks of enemies. For Kuban Circassians were initially peaceful neighbors the Black Sea fleet, and as the old-timers, supplied the newcomers with bread and other victuals, clothes, harness, and even weapons, instead of all this is obtained from Black Sea salt, which the Kuban was not. Coastal Circassians extremely sorry that with the settlement of the Black Sea Cossack troops in the Kuban region, they have lost their economic activities on the right bank of the Kuban, which, though considered a Russian, but did not have before the arrival of the Black Sea fleet of the Russian population. Particularly regretted this prince of the tribe bzheduhskago Batir Giray, who not only worked on our side and skototovodstvom arable farming, but even he had lived in the village, formerly in the current forest "Kruglik" near the city Ekaterinodar or rather at the place of this city, where then was also a forest.
To be able to stay in their place of residence, Batir Giray said army chiefs about his devotion to the Black Sea in Russia and a Russian desire to be forever lodged in order to not only move beyond the Kuban, with the servants of him to the Circassians. The motive for the transition in Russian citizenship, this prince, in his petition, staged by the fact that in former times Mountain owners were under the command of Russian khans, and as free does not belong to not only Turkey but also the most Crimea. And since the Crimea became part of the Russian state, they consider themselves to be annexed to Russia. In view of this subject in Turkey do not want to. Such statements are followed not only from the father Batir Giray, but also from other zakubanskih princes and noblemen.
These owners and bzheduhskago natuhayskogo tribe people Circassians, in confirmation of the sincerity of their statements, sworn on the Koran, holy and unwaveringly faithful to the Russian state and Russian grievances filed not to give in case of rupture between Russia and the Ottoman Empire and the outbreak of war between these powers.
