In 1795 the [[Crimean Karaites]] petitioned Count Zubiv pretending to be Karimi instead of Jews in order to escape a double taxation law which applied to Jews initiating a relationship between the Karimi and the Karaites which culminated in Seraya Shapshal promoting a short lived union between the two in 1919. However, the Ukrainian Karaites expelled Shapshal and united with the Nazis in WW2 to exterminate the Karimi Karaitizers.
Nevertheless, the Karimi Karaitizers survived into the present.
