On the Question of the “Party division” of the Political Elite of the Kazan Khanate by Aksanov A.V.

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The Problem That Is not There: On the Old and New Interpretations of the Tent-Like Churches in Russian Architecture by Ivan Sablin

“…Sepulchre) may become dispensable; this approach permits to treat instead the phenomenon as an incidental one caused by the mere formal and technical experiments and to a certain extent explicable by the intrusion of the Italian architects in the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow.…”
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The “People from Cherkasy”: The “Horde’s Cossacks” and “Serving Tatars” of the Forest-Steppe Borderlands (late 14th–15th centuries) by L.V. Vorotyntsev

“…Research objectives: To consider the problem of localization and the time of the appearance of the military community called the “people from Cherkasy” and other ethnic consortiums of the “Horde’s Cossacks” and “serving Tatars” in Lithuania and the Grand Duchy of Moscow’s border areas. Research materials: Medieval Russian chronicles – Nikonovskaya, Sofiyskaya Second, Ermolinskaya, Simeonovskaya, Ustyuzhskaya, the abbreviated svod of the late 15th century, as well as the list of noble families of 1475–1605, the Rodoslovets of Glinsky princes from the Rumyantsev collection, and the Story of the Kazan Tsardom (or the Kazan Chronicle). …”
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