No matter how the allies of the Ottoman Empire tried to force it to continue to fight with Russia, the Sublime Porte, which had lost all the major battles on land and at sea, asked for peace, which was concluded in December 1791 in Iasi. - Here, on the Danube, they will leave the Turk to guard or will they drive to the Caucasian line? - the huntsmen-wolfhounds wondered. - Or maybe we should drive the rebellious Poles through the forests to Poland? They certainly won’t leave you idle! And somewhere in distant St. Petersburg, the empress’s hand was already writing with a pen on a snow-white sheet: “I command a separate special regiment of rangers to be sent for service from the Danube to...”