Was Hadji Giray the Khan of Kazan? Attempts to explain the “Dastan about Hadji Giray” in the “Compendium of Chronicles” by Kadyr Ali-bek
Journal: Golden Horde Review
Year: 2023

The article’s author reaches the conclusion that Hadji Giray was strongly connected with the Kazan «yurt» by family ties. His father, Giyas ad-Din, ruled the Volga’s left bank for some time, and his uncle may have been the same Kazan “Libey” whose murder served as the starting point for the emergence of an independent Kazan (after 1445). The dastan about Hadji Giray in the “Compendium of Chronicles” is a monument that reflects the desire of representatives of the Volga’s left-bank lands to invit