 After the war ended, Russia remained to administer the Danubian Principalities.Nicholas I decided to form yet another new Cossack group the Danube Cossack Host, which was to include descendants of the Zaporozhians who fled Russia in 1775 but did not join the Sultan and instead settled in Bessarabia.In addition it included loyal Nekrasovites as well as many volunteers from the Balkan peoples.