Adil Gerai (nureddin)

Adil Gerai (Girei) ( Crimea. Adil Geray , عادل كراى ; died. In 1659 ) - Crimean Nuredin ( 1651 - 1659 ), son of the Crimean Khan Seliemet Geraia ( 1608 - 1610 ), brother of Islyam III Geraia and Mehmed IV Gerai .

In 1651, after the death of Kalgi Kiram Gerai, the Crimean Khan Islyam III Gerai appointed his nephew and former nouraddin Ghazi Gerai ( 1651 - 1666 ) with the new calga , and transferred the post of noureddin to his younger brother Adil Gerai ( 1651 - 1659 ).

In May 1652, the Crimean Khan Islyam III Gerai sent to help his ally, the Ukrainian hetman Bogdan Khmelnitsky , the 15,000th Tatar-Nogai army led by Nuraedin Adil Gerai and Perekop Bey Karach-Murza. Bogdan Khmelnitsky , gathering up to 12-16 thousand Cossacks under his command, marched from Chigirin to the steppe, where he joined the Crimean army that arrived. At the head of the united Cossack-Tatar army, Bogdan Khmelnitsky moved to Bratslavshchina , where under Ladyzhynin there was a full hetman of corona Martin Kalinowski with the Polish army. On June 1-2, 1652, in the Battle of Batog, the Cossack regiments and the Crimean Tatar detachments surrounded, defeated and almost completely destroyed the 20-thousand Polish-gentry army. The Poles lost killed more than eight thousand people, died and the full hetman of the crown Martin Kalinowski .

In the autumn of 1653, Nureddin Adil Gerai participated in a major military campaign of Khan Islyam Gerai against the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth . The combined Cossack-Tatar troops led by the Ukrainian hetman Bohdan Khmelnytsky and Islyam III laid siege to the Polish-gentry army under the command of King Jan Casimir under Zhvanets .

In the summer of 1654, after the death of the Crimean Khan Islyam III Gerai ( 1644 - 1654 ), the Turkish government appointed his younger brother Mehmed IV Gerai ( 1654 - 1666 ) as the new Crimean Khan. Mehmed IV, who arrived in the Crimea and occupied Bakhchisarai , left the kalga of Gazi Gerai and noraddin Adil Gerai in their places.

In January 1655, by order of Khan Mehmed IV Gerai kalga Gazi Gerai and Nuredin Adil Gerai, at the head of a large Crimean Tatar army (from Polish information, from 120 to 150 thousand people) went to Ukraine to help the Polish army in the fight against Russian-Cossack troops. In the vicinity of Uman, the Crimean army was united with the Polish under the command of the field hetman of the crown Stanislav Lyantskoronsky . In negotiations with the Polish command, kalga Gazi Gerai obtained permission for the Tatars to destroy the nearby villages and capture the captives. In early March, the new Polish commander, Krishtof Tyszkiewicz, reported that two hundred and seventy townships in Bratslavshchina were ravaged and burned by Crimeans. During the four months of his stay in Ukraine of the allied Crimean Tatar army, Kristoph Tyszkiewicz believed, more than two hundred thousand people were taken prisoner into the Crimea. The Tatars also attacked the Polish allied detachments, robbing and capturing prisoners, horses and cattle. In mid-March 1655, the Crimean Tatars and Nogai , capturing a huge number of prisoners in the Ukrainian lands, which were still under the control of the Polish-gentry army, slowly began to retreat to their steppes. The first detachments under the command of Kammambet-Murza and Tsarevich Mengli Gerai went first, and then the Kalga-Sultan Ghazi Gerai with the main forces retreated to Akkerman , and on March 18 the last Crimean-Tatar detachments under the leadership of Nuredin-Sultan Adil Gerai took off.

In the autumn of the same 1655, Nuraddin Adil Gerai participated in a new major campaign of the Crimean Khan Mehmed IV Gerai to Ukraine. In October, Adil Gerai with the vanguard appeared under the Olshansky and other sets of the Belotserkovsky regiment. Two weeks later, Adil Gerai left Ostropol and moved on to Goncharikha and Kamenets-Podolsky , robbing and burning everything in his path. At the end of October 1655, Adil Gerai united with the main forces of the Crimean army led by Mehmed Gerai near Zbarazh . The 100-thousandth Crimean Tatar army, united with the Polish detachment under the leadership of the governor of Bratslav Peter Potocki , camped near Zbarazh . The Russian-Ukrainian army under the command of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and the Moscow governor boyar Vasily Buturlin, having stopped the siege of Lvov , moved to Volyn towards the huge Crimean people. On November 9 - 12, 1655, the Russian-Cossack regiments defeated the superior forces of the Crimean Tatar troops at the Battle of Ozerna .

In 1659, Nuraddin Adil Gerai passed away. The Crimean Khan Mehmed Gerai appointed his nephew Murad Gerai ( 1659 - 1663 ), the son of Mubarek Gerai , to be the new Nuredin . The only son of Adil Gerai is Kara Devlet Gerai ( 1647 - 1717 ), Noraddin ( 1691 - 1692 ) and the Crimean Khan ( 1716 - 1717 ).