As long as you paid them the taxes they required (via local chieftains) you were quite safe as a peasant. Of course, ignoring the initial conquest. You're prob

As long as you paid them the taxes they required (via local chieftains) you were quite safe as a peasant. Of course, ignoring the initial conquest. You're probably thinking of the later Crimean Tatar raids that were indeed a very big nuisance North and West of the Black Sea, that area only got pacified for good once it came under Russian control (that's why cities like Kherson and Odessa have been founded by Tsarist Russia in late 18th century).