User blog:Jeremiah Garland/Declaration of War on the Ottoman Empire

Declaration of War and Proclamation of Ownership of the Crimean Peninsula
Summer Palace, Tsarkoye Selo

Thirty Miles South of St Petersburg

The 2nd of June, the Year of Our Lord 1749 (15th of June N.S.)

Translated from Russian

After meeting on separate occasions with my Prime Minister, Kazimir Yaromirovich Kovlovsky; the Tsarevich and commander of the Imperial Armies Ivan Vladimirovich; and my Minister of War Rodion Vasilivich Sarov; I, Vladimir Petrovich, of the royal and ancient house of Romanov, Emperor and Autocrat of Muscovy and All the Russias, hereby declare war on Sultan Mahmud of the Ottoman Empire.

This decision comes hours after hearing word of the royalist revolution in Constantinople that saw King Richard Cannonwalker of the Brethren Court ousted, and supplanted by the former sultan. The Russian Empire, having engaged in successful talks with the pirate king over the Russian annexation of the Crimean Peninsula, have been denied any further possibilities of this action. As such, we refuse to acknowledge the legitimacy of Sultan Mahmud's claim to the Turkish Empire, and would furthermore like to proclaim our complete subjugation of the Crimea, dissolving the khanate government that formerly ruled the peninsula as a vassal of the Ottomans.

Signed,



Vladimir Petrovich, Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russias