Russia and Kazan
Author : Jaroslav Z. Pelenskyj
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3111529894
Tatar Empire
Author : Danielle Ross
Publisher :
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0253045738
Book Description
In the 1700s, Kazan Tatar (Muslim scholars of Kazan) and scholarly networks stood at the forefront of Russia's expansion into the South Urals, western Siberia, and the Kazakh steppe. It was there that the Tatars worked with Russian agents, established settlements, and spread their own religious and intellectual cuture that helped shaped their identity in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Kazan Tatars profited economically from Russia's commercial and military expansion to Muslim lands and began to present themselves as leaders capable of bringing Islamic modernity to the rest of Russia's Muslim population. Danielle Ross bridges the history of Russia's imperial project with the history of Russia's Muslims by exploring the Kazan Tatars as participants in the construction of the Russian empire. Ross focuses on Muslim clerical and commercial networks to reconstruct the ongoing interaction among Russian imperial policy, nonstate actors, and intellectual developments within Kazan's Muslim community and also considers the evolving relationship with Central Asia, the Kazakh steppe, and western China. Tatar Empire offers a more Muslim-centered narrative of Russian empire building, making clear the links between cultural reformism and Kazan Tatar participation in the Russian eastward expansion.
The Elusive Empire
Author : Matthew P. Romaniello
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 2012-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0299285138
Book Description
In 1552, Muscovite Russia conquered the city of Kazan on the Volga River. It was the first Orthodox Christian victory against Islam since the fall of Constantinople, a turning point that, over the next four years, would complete Moscow’s control over the river. This conquest provided a direct trade route with the Middle East and would transform Muscovy into a global power. As Matthew Romaniello shows, however, learning to manage the conquered lands and peoples would take decades. Russia did not succeed in empire-building because of its strength, leadership, or even the weakness of its neighbors, Romaniello contends; it succeeded by managing its failures. Faced with the difficulty of assimilating culturally and religiously alien peoples across thousands of miles, the Russian state was forced to compromise in ways that, for a time, permitted local elites of diverse backgrounds to share in governance and to preserve a measure of autonomy. Conscious manipulation of political and religious language proved more vital than sheer military might. For early modern Russia, empire was still elusive—an aspiration to political, economic, and military control challenged by continuing resistance, mismanagement, and tenuous influence over vast expanses of territory.
Kazan, Russia
Author : Caleb Gray
Publisher : Sonittec
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 11,98 MB
Release : 2019-12-09
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912483945
Book Description
Kazan, Russia. Travel and Tourism, Guide. Kazan (meaning 'cooking pot' in Tatar) is the Istanbul of the Volga, a place where Europe and Asia curiously inspect each other from the tops of church belfries and minarets. It is about 150 years older than Moscow and the capital of the Tatarstan Republic (Республика Татарстан) the land of the Volga Tatars, a Turkic people commonly associated with Chinggis (Genghis) Khaan's hordes. Tatar autonomy is strong here and is not just about bilingual street signs. Moscow has pumped vast sums into the republic to persuade it to remain a loyal part of Russia. It also ensures that Tatarstan benefits greatly from the vast oil reserves in this booming republic. Although Tatar nationalism is strong, it is not radical, and the local version of Sunni Islam is very moderate. Slavic Russians make up about half of the population, and this cultural conflux of Slavic and Tatar cultures makes Kazan an all-the-more-interesting city. People are proud of their culture and try to save it, which is also encouraged on the state level. For example, Tatar language is official; all students must learn it at school. All signs in Kazan are written both in Russian and Tatar. It is more common to see the Tatar flag than the Russian flag. You will probably find here more mosques, than churches
Contested Spaces of Nobility in Early Modern Europe
Author : Matthew P. Romaniello
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,74 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 9781409405511
Book Description
European nobility faced a number of religious, political and military challenges. Many sought to increase their status, or maintain their privileges, by negotiating with various political and religious authorities, and exploiting opportunities in this era of upheaval. In examining the protective strategies nobles adopted in an age of state-building, reformation and expansion, this collection reveals the roles of the 'second order' and their ability to survive. Scholars across disciplinary and national boundaries offer exciting new perspectives on this central social group.
Nation, Language, Islam
Author : Helen M. Faller
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 13,54 MB
Release : 2011-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9639776904
Book Description
A detailed academic treatise of the history of nationality in Tatarstan. The book demonstrates how state collapse and national revival influenced the divergence of worldviews among ex-Soviet people in Tatarstan, where a political movement for sovereignty (1986-2000) had significant social effects, most saliently, by increasing the domains where people speak the Tatar language and circulating ideas associated with Tatar culture. Also addresses the question of how Russian Muslims experience quotidian life in the post-Soviet period. The only book-length ethnography in English on Tatars, Russia’s second most populous nation, and also the largest Muslim community in the Federation, offers a major contribution to our understanding of how and why nations form and how and why they matter – and the limits of their influence, in the Tatar case.
The Elusive Empire
Author : Matthew P. Romaniello
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Kazanskoe khanstvo
ISBN :
Book Description
Russia on the Borders of Asia
Author : Edward Tracy Turnerelli
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 12,67 MB
Release : 1854
Category : Ethnology
ISBN :
Book Description
Armies of the Volga Bulgars & Khanate of Kazan
Author : Viacheslav Shpakovsky
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,76 MB
Release : 2013-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 178200081X
Book Description
The Bulgars were a Turkic people who established a state north of the Black Sea. In the late 500s and early 600s AD their state fragmented under pressure from the Khazars; one group moved south into what became Bulgaria, but the rest moved north during the 7th and 8th centuries to the basin of the Volga river. There they remained under Khazar domination until the Khazar Khanate was defeated by Kievan Russia in 965. In the 1220s they managed to maul Genghis Khan's Mongols, who returned to devastate their towns in revenge. By the 1350s they had recovered much of their wealth, but they were caught in the middle between the Tatar Golden Horde and the Christian Russian principalities. They were ravaged by these two armies in turn on several occasions between 1360 and 1431. A new city then rose from the ashes – Kazan, originally called New Bulgar – and the successor Islamic Khanate of Kazan resisted the Russians until falling to Ivan the Terrible in 1552. The costumes, armament, armour and fighting methods of the Volga Bulgars during this momentous period are explored in this fully illustrated study.
Russia and Kazan
Author : John Lister Illingworth Fennell
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 38,85 MB
Release : 1974*
Category :
ISBN :
