In August 1751, a group of Yugoslavians headed by the Major of the Austrian service, Serbian J, set off from Vojvodina on a long journey. Croat. Soldiers, their wives, children and the elderly left their habitable places forever - a total of 184 people. Carts loaded with household goods and grain for the first crops creaked heavily. Cattle were being driven nearby. The horsemen carried rifles slung over their shoulders, and the priest's robe was black among the colorful clothes of the emigrants. He was also on horseback... Thus began the migration of a part of the Yugoslavs to Russia in the middle of the 18th century. In the 18th century, the Yugoslavians were part of several states. The lands of Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Macedonia and part of Montenegro were under the rule of the Ottoman Empire, Croatia, Slavonia, Vojvodina and the Military Border 1 - in the possession of the Habsburgs, and the rural communities of the Adriatic coast - under the auspices of Venice. Although the conditions of life of the Yugoslavian peoples within the borders of these States were different, these peoples everywhere experienced social and national oppression. In the areas that were under the rule of the Porte, the peasants were forcibly driven from the lands that the Turkish feudal lords seized. The process of ciftlichenija (deforestation) began in Northern Serbia and spread to Southern Serbia and Macedonia. In Bosnia, land dispossession was faster, and by the end of the 18th century, most of the peasants of this region, having lost allotments, were cultivating the landlords ' lands. Some peasants left the villages, went to the cities, emigrated to other states. The process of forced land dispossession was accompanied in all the Yugoslav territories by peasant revolts against the feudal lords. Although numerous wars, as well as the plague epidemic that broke out in the first half of the 18th century, undermined the productive forces of Croatia, the Slovenian lands, the Military Bo ... Read more