Petrove

Petrove lies in the northern Black Sea steppe. Across the wider steppe, river valleys provided resources and routes between dispersed settlements and grazing grounds.

During the early modern period, the wider steppe was part of the world of the Zaporizhian Cossacks and their relations with the Crimean Khanate, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy. Raids, diplomacy and trade crossed unstable boundaries. Eighteenth-century Russian expansion brought military administration and new agricultural settlements; the suppression of the Zaporizhian Sich marked a major political change.