Russia and Kazan: Conquest and Imperial Ideology (1438-1560s)

Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
I. Introduction
Part One
II. The Relations Between Muscovy and the Kazan Khanate, 1438–1552
Part Two. Muscovite Legal Claims to the Kazan Khanate and Historical, Dynastic, and National Justifications for Its Conquest
III. Investiture of Khans with the Khanate of Kazan – a Legal Prerogative of the Muscovite Rulers
IV. The Kazan Yurt – a Votčina of the Muscovite Rulers
V. The Muscovite “Law of Conquest” and Kazan
VI. Historical and Dynastic Justifications for the Kazan Conquest
VII. The National Justification of the Conquest: Kazan – “A Russian Land”
Part Three
VIII. The Theory of Bulgar-Kazan Continuity: The Projection of Muscovite Political Ideas into Turkic and East European History
Part Four. The Struggle Between Two Worlds: Orthodox Christianity And Islam
IX. The Religious Struggle against the Kazanian Tatars: Comments, Projects and Exhortations
X. Prophecies, Predictions, Omens and Miracles
XI. The Liberation of Russian Christians from Muslim Captivity
XII. The Expansion of the Orthodox Christian Faith
XIII. The Martyrology of the Kazan Conquest
XIV. Conclusion
Illustrations
Appendices
Selected Bibliography
Index