What is it about?
This article explores relations between Muscovy and the so-called Later Golden Horde successor states that existed on the territory of Desht-i Qipchaq (the Qipchaq Steppe, a part of the East European steppe bounded roughly by the Oskol and Tobol rivers, the steppe-forest line, and the Caspian and Aral Seas) during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
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Why is it important?
According to the model proposed here, the Tatar side began as the dominant partner in these mutual relations; however, from the beginning of the seventeenth century this role gradually flipped.
Perspectives
The most crucial points in the almost six-century-long history of relations between Muscovy and the Tatars (between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries) were the Mongol invasion of the Northern, Eastern and parts of the Southern Rus’ principalities between 1237 and 1241; and the Muscovite annexation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates between 1552 and 1556. Indicators of a change in the relationship between the Muscovite grand principality and the Golden Horde can be found in the diplomatic contacts between Muscovy and the Tatar khanates. The main goal of the article is to reveal the changing position of Muscovy within the system of the Later Golden Horde successor states. An additional goal is to revisit the role of the Tatar khanates in the political history of Central Eurasia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
Bulat R. Rakhimzianov
Institute of History of the Academy of Science of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan’, Russia)
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This page is a summary of: Muscovy and the Tatars, Canadian-American Slavic Studies, November 2020, Brill Deutschland GmbH,
DOI: 10.30965/22102396-05404002.
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