2018. Vol. 6, no. 1. Vorotyntsev L.V.

2018. Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 107-122

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2018-6-1.107-122

   THE “PEOPLE FROM CHERKASY”: THE “HORDE’S COSSACKS”
AND “SERVING TATARS” OF THE FOREST-STEPPE BORDERLANDS
(LATE 14TH–15TH CENTURIES)

L.V. Vorotyntsev
Bunin Yelets State University
Yelets, Russian Federation
leonrus1245@mail.ru

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). The author also used the archaeological research results of Ukrainian archaeo­logists О.B. Suprunenko, V.V. Priymak and K.M. Mironenko in the territories of the forest-steppe zone on the Dnieper’s left bank.
Results and novelty of the research: The author offers the conclusion that the “people from Cherkasy” were a Cossack military community, the so-called “Horde’s Cossacks”, that emerged in the 1430s on the lands of the middle Dnieper, with their center in Cherkasy and Kanev. Already by the late 14th – early 15th century, these lands were the official fiefs of Horde rulers (Toqtamish, Ulug-Muhammad) who were forced to withdraw from the steppe to the neighboring territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania for military-political reasons.
In the final part of the work, the author characterizes the feudal possessions of the “serving Tatars” and Cossack communities as polyethnic formations emerged in the zone of intensive ethno-cultural contacts in the forest-steppe borderlands of Russia and the Horde.

Keywords: “serving Tatars”, Mansur-Kiyat, Jagoldai, Ulug-Muhammad, Berdedat Kudaitovich, Kasym and Yakup Mahmetovich, “people from Cherkasy”

For citation: Vorotyntsev L.V. The “People from Cherkasy”: The “Horde’s Cossacks” and “Serving Tatars” of the Forest-Steppe Borderlands (late 14th–15th centuries). Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie=Golden Horde Review. 2018. Vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 107–122. DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2018-6-1.107-122

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About the author: Leonid V. Vorotyntsev – graduate student of historical faculty of I.A. Bunin Yelets State University (28, Kommunarov Str., Yelets 399770, Russian Federation). E-mail: leonrus1245@mail.ru

Received  December 28, 2017   Accepted for publication  March 1, 2018
Published online   March 29, 2018