The universal geography : earth and its inhabitants

FOREIGN COLONIES IN UKRANIA. 299and have declared themselves Hussites in order to escape from the tyranny of thePolish Catholic clergy on the one hand, and of the Orthodox Russian on the other.But next to the Germans the most numerous recent settlers in New Russia are theBulgarians, thousands of whom received the lands left vacant by the Nogai Tatarsafter the Crimean war. But many, especially since the creation of a BulgarianPrincipality, have been seized with home sickness, and have returned to theBalkan peninsula. A large portion of the territory recently ceded by Rumaniato Russia is also occupied by Bulgarian agriculturists, who have here succeeded tothe Nogai Tatars, now removed farther east. The chief immigration took placeFig. 151. Ethnical Elements in South-West Russia.\~~iraLittle Russians. Great Russians. "White Russians. Bulgarians. Rumanians. Poles. Germans. Tatars. Jews.after the peace of Adrianople in 1829, and since then they have, by their skilfulhusbandly and thrifty habits, vastly improved the aspect of the country. Otherforeign elements are the Swedes, settled as fishermen near Berislavl since 1782, andof whom 322 still survived in 1863 ; the Serbs, formerly numerous along the northfrontier of the Zaporog territory, but now mostly assimilated to the Great Russians ;the Greeks and Albanians, now chiefly settled as traders in the towns ; the Jews,who, as enforced agriculturists, have entirely failed and fallen into the deepestmisery. But other Jewish communities are both flourishing and numerous. Inall Russia there cannot be less than 3,000,000, centred mainly in the western