Some comments on the spread of the Black Death in Russia and Eurasia
Journal: De Medio Aevo
Year: 2022

The article analyzes the process of the «Black Death» in the spaces of Eurasia and Russia. In the light of the latest advances in Yersinia pestis paleogenetics, epidemiology, climatology, and the study of historical sources, a host of scientific questions were resolved. This first affected a number of well-established historical facts since the bombing by troops of the Golden Horde Khan of Janibik in 1346 of the besieged Italian colony in the Crimea of Kafa. Many of them, despite all the scienti