 Many Circassian households petitioned the Russian embassy in Constantinople for their resettlement back in the Caucasus.By the end of the century, the Russian consulates all over the Ottoman Empire were deluged with such petitions.Later, re-emigration was sanctioned only on a limited scale, as mostly large villages (up to 8,500 inhabitants) applied for re-emigration and their relocation posed formidable difficulties to the imperial authorities.