Czaykowski took part in the mutiny of November 1830 against Russia as a commander in a Cossack unit at the Karol Różycki regiment. In 1842, Czaykowski established a village, titled as Adampol, in the name of the Prince Czartoryski for the Polish nationals.Ĭzaykowski was brought up in a family that maintained the traditions of the Cossack nobles in the city of Berdychiv, currently situated in Ukraine and the environment that he has gone through and brought up affected his vision and imagination and in the meantime, his works and political activities as well. As a matter of fact, he maintained and coordinated the political activities of the Polish people living in the Ottoman Empire. Czaykowski officially went to Istanbul as a French noble, who was named as Michel Czayka and the representative of the Paris History Institute in order to carry out researches about the Slavic people in Balkans.
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One of the main objectives of the said Agency was to diminish the influence of Russia among the Slavic people living in the Ottoman Empire. The Prince Adam Czartoryski, who led the organization, sent Czaykowski to Istanbul in the year of 1841 as his representative and appointed him as the first director of the Oriental Polish Agency. Czaykowski, when he was in Paris, took part in a political organization having gathered the Polish nationals, who were in exile in France and titled as Hôtel Lambert. He had his own name, written in the history through his activities in the field of the struggle for independence of Poland and novels, written in this respect. Michał Czaykowski, who was known as Mehmed Sadık Pasha, is undoubtedly one of the prominent characters among the Polish immigrants in the Ottoman Empire.
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In 1670, however, hetman Doroshenko tried once again to take over Ukraine, and in 1671 Khan of Crimea, Adil Giray, supportive of the Commonwealth, was replaced with a new one, Selim I Giray, by the Ottoman sultan. They were however stopped by Commonwealth forces under hetman Jan Sobieski, who stopped their first push (1666–1667), defeating them several times, and finally gaining an armistice after the battle of Podhajce. Trying to capitalize on that weakness, Tatars, who commonly raided across the Commonwealth borders in search of loot and slaves, invaded, this time allying themselves with Cossacks under hetman Doroshenko. In the meantime, Commonwealth forces were trying to put down unrest in Ukraine, but were weakened by decades long wars ( Khmelnytsky Uprising, The Deluge and Russo-Polish War (1654–1667)). In 1666, Petro Doroshenko, Hetman of Right-bank Ukraine, aiming to gain control of Ukraine but facing defeats from other factions struggling over control of that region (the Commonwealth and the Tsardom of Russia), in a final bid to preserve his power in Ukraine, signed a treaty with Sultan Mehmed IV that recognized the Cossack Hetmanate as a vassal of the Ottoman Empire. It was one of the aftermaths of the Russo-Polish War (1654–1667) and a prelude to the Polish–Ottoman War (1672–1676). Polish-Cossack-Tatar War was the war between the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Ottoman Empire (in practice, a proxy war between the Cossack Hetmanate and Crimean Khanate) over Ukraine.