Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and maps
- List of contributors
- Note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE RISE OF THE CHINGGISIDS
- Part Two LEGACIES OF THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
- Part Three CHINGGISID DECLINE: 1368–c. 1700
- Part Four NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
- 12 Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmens
- 13 The western steppe: Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea
- 14 Eastern Central Asia (Xinjiang): 1300–1800
- 15 The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia: 1500–1785
- 16 The western steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule
- Part Five NEW IMPERIAL MANDATES AND THE END OF THE CHINGGISID ERA (18th–19th CENTURIES)
- Bibliography
- Index
16 - The western steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule
from Part Four - NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 March 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figure and maps
- List of contributors
- Note on transliteration
- List of abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- PART ONE THE RISE OF THE CHINGGISIDS
- Part Two LEGACIES OF THE MONGOL CONQUESTS
- Part Three CHINGGISID DECLINE: 1368–c. 1700
- Part Four NOMADS AND SETTLED PEOPLES IN INNER ASIA AFTER THE TIMURIDS
- 12 Uzbeks, Qazaqs and Turkmens
- 13 The western steppe: Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea
- 14 Eastern Central Asia (Xinjiang): 1300–1800
- 15 The Chinggisid restoration in Central Asia: 1500–1785
- 16 The western steppe: the Volga-Ural region, Siberia and the Crimea under Russian rule
- Part Five NEW IMPERIAL MANDATES AND THE END OF THE CHINGGISID ERA (18th–19th CENTURIES)
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Conquest
With the aid of our Almighty Lord Jesus Christ and the prayers of the Mother of God … our pious Tsar and Grand Prince Ivan Vasilievich, crowned by God, Autocrat of all Rus', fought against the infidels, defeated them finally and captured the Tsar of Kazan' Edigai-Mahmet. And the pious Tsar and Grand Prince ordered his regiment to sing an anthem under his banner, to give thanks to God for the victory; and at the same time ordered a life-giving cross to be placed and a church to be built, with the uncreated image of our Lord Jesus Christ, where the Tatar colours had stood during the battle.
On 2 (15) October 1552, Russian and allied Tatar troops stormed what was left of the Kazan Kremlin after a short siege. As the chronicle reported, the tsar ordered the surviving male defenders of the city except for the Khan to be put to death as traitors, and the remaining buildings were symbolically consecrated and Christianized. Already the contemporary Russian chroniclers understood the conquest of Kazan and the subsequent incorporation of the Khanate into Muscovite body politic as an unprecedented incident and a turning point in history: for the first time Moscow's Grand Prince conquered and annexed a sovereign, military power and economically developed neighbouring Muslim state.
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- The Cambridge History of Inner AsiaThe Chinggisid Age, pp. 303 - 330Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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