Meshchera as a Point of Political Interaction between Muscovy and the Tatar World
Journal: Russian History
Year: 2016

Meshchera (also known in the historiography as the Kasimov Khanate, in diplomatic sources as the Meshcherskiy iurt ) played a special, very specific role in the relations between Muscovy and the Tatar Khanates during the fifteenth through sixteenth centuries. As a kind of specific frontier zone, it was situated within Muscovy and the Muscovite grand prince possessed authority over it, but at the same time, it became widely regarded as a Tatar iurt . For instance, in Crimean eyes, it was a iurt o