Muscovy’s Conquest of Kazan
Journal: Kritika
Year: 2014

Muscovy’s Conquest of Kazan Brian L. Davies Matthew P. Romaniello, The Elusive Empire: Kazan and the Creation of Russia, 1552–1671. xiii + 297 pp., maps, illus. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. ISBN-13 978-0299285142. $29.95. Non-Orthodox and non-Slavic populations initially predominated in certain of the territories annexed to the Grand Duchy and Tsardom of Moscow over the 14th through 16th centuries. Fully integrating them into the Muscovite state as tax-bearing subjects under the