The rule of the last Crimean, khan…

The rule of the last Crimean, khan Şahin Giray, is marked with increasing Russian influence and outbursts of violence from the khan administration towards internal opposition.

On April 8, 1783, in violation of the treaty (some parts of which had been already violated by Crimeans and Ottomans), Catherine II intervenes in the civil war, de facto annexing the whole peninsula as the Taurida Governorate.

In 1787, Şahin Giray takes refuge in the Ottoman Empire and is eventually executed, on Rhodes, by the Ottoman authorities for betrayal.

The royal Giray family survives to this day.