Muslim and Newly-Baptised Tartars in Novgorod: The Formation and Functioning of a Minor Social Group in the Late 16th and Early 17th Centuries
Journal: Quaestio Rossica
Year: 2016

The article uses the prosopographical method to examine the history of Muslim and newly-baptised Tatars in Novgorod after 1550. 418 biographies were studied. The main sources were documents from the Razryad (service lists) and Pomestny Prikaz (land chancellery): local Novgorod court records also furnished further information. The history of the Novgorod Tartars began in the 1550s, when groups from Astrakhan and Kazan were settled in the eastern part of Novgorod region (Sugletsa and Udomlya distr