2023. no 2. Roman Pochekaev

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Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea
through the eyes of foreign contemporaries

Roman Pochekaev
National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg;
“The Great Altai” Scientific Educational Center of altaistics and turkology of the Altai State University

Abstract. The article is an analysis of specific status of the Crimea as a part of the Golden Horde and as it was reflected in the contemporary sources: notes of travelers, diplomats, merchants, missionaries, etc., correspondence of rulers, historical chronicles and hagiographic works based the information of eye-witnesses. Despite of the fact that the Crimean Peninsula was an integral part of the Golden Horde, its specific position, including the structure of population, international trade relations and the interest of the foreign states, caused the series of specific features in the legal regulations of different groups of inhabitants. The system of authorities in Crimea, taking into account the position of some cities (such as Sudak or Caffa), is observed as well as religious policy of khans towards different confessions, specific taxes and duties. The author finds out that although the Crimean Peninsula was completely in the field of the Golden Horde political and legal regulations, khans needed to take into consideration its strategic position, national and confessional structure of the population and these peculiarities were reflected in the Crimean legal realities.

Keywords: Golden Horde, Crimea, system of power and administration, religious policy, traditional law, international customary law, taxes and duties

For citation: Pochekaev R.Yu. Legal realities of the Golden Horde Crimea through the eyes of foreign contemporaries. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Histo­rical Review. 2023, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 107–123. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2023.2.107-123 (In Russian)

Financial Support: Research carried out at the expense of a grant from Russian Science Foundation, project №23-18-00147 “Socio-political organization of the Eurasian space in the Middle Ages (Historical experience of the Golden Horde and Iran in the 13th – 14th centuries)”, https://rscf.ru/project/23-18-00147 is being implementrd at Voronezh State University.

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About the author: Roman Yu. Pochekaev – Dr. Sci. (History), Cand. Sci. (Jurisprudence), Associate professor, Professor, Head of the Department of theory and history of law and state, National Research University Higher School of Economics in St. Petersburg (198099, Promyshlennaya Str., 17, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation); Chief Researcher of “The Great Altai” Scientific Educational Center of altaistics and turkology of the Altai State University; rpochekaev@hse.ru

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