When a Russian colonel wanted to expel the Albanians (Turks) of Vasojevic, Kuci, Brda, Palabardhët and Pepaj and annex the regions to Montenegro in 1841

When a Russian colonel wanted to expel the Albanians (Turks) of Vasojevic, Kuci, Brda, Palabardhët and Pepaj and annex the regions to Montenegro in 1841

Cited:

“In 1841, a former colonel in the Russian army, Vice-Conseil of England in Jeni Pazar, arrived in Paris. His name was Nikolai Ivanovich, and he initially joined the map depot of the Ministry of War, where he was employed in drawing maps of the Caucasus and southern Russia. In the salons of Marshal Soult, he met Prince Adam Ryski and Count Zamoyski and concluded an agreement with them stipulating that he would be provided with a thousand Poles, equipped for the uprising, to return with him to Antivari.

He was to be proclaimed chief of the country, expel the Turks from the cantons of the Wassoewitch (Vasojevic), the Koutchi (Kuci), the Bjelopavliq (Palabardhët) and Piperi (Pepaj), and annex them to Montenegro. In return, he promised to convert to Catholicism and to submit the entire principality to the Church of Rome. The Pope provided a subsidy of one million, and England, through a certain M. de Beaumont, promised arms, ammunition, complete equipment for the troops, one million, and a ship.

Wassoewitch pledged to maintain a Polish legion of several thousand men and to march with his entire army from Montenegro to the liberation of Poland as soon as the opportunity arose. Prince Czartoryski offered Czaykowski the post of his plenipotentiary to the future Prince of Montenegro, with the mission of taking the diplomatic lead in this affair.”

Source

Revue britannique. p. 142. Volume 3. 1877.

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