2022, vol. 10, no. 3. Polekhov S.V., Moiseev M.V.

2022, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 612-628

DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.22378/2313-6197.2022-10-3.612-628
EDN: https://elibrary.ru/CGNAUF

   MATERIALS ABOUT THE RELATIONS OF THE GRAND DUCHY
OF LITHUANIA WITH THE CRIMEAN AND KAZAN KHANATES
IN THE YEARS 1537–1538 FROM THE RADZIWIŁŁ ARCHIVE

S.V. Polekhov 1, M.V. Moiseev 2, 3
1 School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities,
Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy
of National Economy and Public Administration
Moscow, Russian Federation
sergey.polekhov@gmail.com
2 Moscow State Pedagogical University
Moscow, Russian Federation
3 Museum Association “Museum of Moscow”
Moscow, Russian Federation
maksi-moisee@yandex.ru

Abstract: Research objectives: This article offers a source study and an edition of the missive of Khan Safa Giray of Kazan attached to the letter of King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania Sigismund the Old (Zygmunt Stary) which he composent to the Council of Lords of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania on November 8, 1538. The research aims to contextualize the khan’s missive and to establish its date.
Research materials: The copies of the letters preserved in the collection of Ignacy Onacewicz in the Institute of Russian Literature (Pushkin House) in St. Petersburg, as well as published subsidiary materials from the archival and library collections of Warsaw and Cracow.
Results and novelty of the research: It is established that Safa Giray’s missive to Sigismund the Old, once kept in the Radziwiłłs’ archive, and now in Ignacy Onacewicz’s collection, was sent in the spring or summer/early autumn of 1538. It was preceded by a series of the khan’s missives to the king written during the year 1537 (this dating is substantiated) in the larger context of wars of the Russian State with the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (the Starodub War) and the Kazan Khanate, as well as the internal struggle in the Crimean Khanate. These missives are now preserved in Warsaw and Cracow. The texts of both missives from Ignacy Onacewicz’s collection, the khan’s missive to the king, and the king’s missive to the Council of Lords, are published for the first time.

Keywords: Radziwiłł archive, Grand Duchy of Lithuania, Kazan Khanate, Crimean Khanate, Russian state, Safa Giray, Sigismund the Old (Zygmunt Stary)

For citation: Polekhov S.V., Moiseev M.V. Materials about the relations of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania with the Crimean and Kazan Khanates in the years 1537–1538 from the Radziwiłł archive. Zolotoordynskoe obozrenie=Golden Horde Review. 2022, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 612–628.  DOI: 10.22378/2313-6197.2022-10-3.612-628 (In Russian)

Acknowledgements: The article was prepared within the framework of a research grant funded by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (grant ID: 075-15-2022-326).

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About the authors: Sergey V. Polekhov – Cand. Sci. (History), Senior Research Fellow, School of Advanced Studies in the Humanities, Institute of Social Sciences of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (82, Vernadskiy Avenue, Moscow 119606, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0001-7866-7663. E-mail: sergey.polekhov@gmail.com

Maksim V. Moiseev – Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor, Moscow State Pedagogical University (1, building 1, Malaya Pirogovskaya Str., Moscow 119991, Russian Federation); Head of the Sector of the Department “Moscow Archaeology Museum”, Museum Association “Museum of Moscow” (2, Zubovskiy Blvd., Moscow 119021, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0003-0421-8982, ResearcherID: E-1622-2016. E-mail: maksi-moisee@yandex.ru

Received  May 19, 2022   Accepted for publication  August 10, 2022
Published  Online September 29, 2022