In general, even if the resettlement of Russians to the Crimea (gradual, of course)
would require some extraordinary costs from the state, then even at such cost,
it would be extremely advantageous to continue colonizing Crimea. In any case,
if the Russians do not take Crimean land, then the Jews will infest the region and
kill its soil...
-- Fyodor Dostoevsky (A Writer's Diary, July and August, 1876)