![]() ![]() These politics were dictated by the wish of the self-proclaimed Russian emperor to legitimize his new position in the world and in history. The Russian politics focused on the conquest and destruction of the Tatar states, first the Tatar khanate of Kazan in 1552, then the other Tatars khanates (Astrakhan, Kasim, Siberia, Nogay, and, eventually, Crimea). The Russian rulers have adopted the tile of ‘tsar’ (emperor) in 1547, when Ivan the Terrible ascended to the Muscovite throne. The chief preoccupation of the Russian historiography is related to the imperial legitimacy, a highly relevant issue for Russia. For hundreds of years – and still today – Russia has been propagating a negative image of the Tatars with the subsequent aim of justifying the systemic invasion of the territories that once belonged to the Tatars. ![]() ![]() ![]() Moreover, nationalist Russian historians deny the real and significant contribution of the Tatars in the formation and development of the Russian state centred on the Grand Duchy of Moscow. In fact, the Russian historians are unwilling to admit that the Tatars and the states they had formed dominated Russia for almost 300 years (13th-15th centuries). The Russian (including Soviet) historiography has been trying for a long time to eliminate the “Tatars” from Russian history. ![]()
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