2025. no 4. Marat Gatin, Lenar Abzalov, Ilias Mustakimov, Roman Pochekaev

On the status of the Golden Horde officials in the Italian colonies of the Northern Black Sea Region

Marat Gatin, Lenar Abzalov
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University

Ilias Mustakimov
Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University;
National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan

Roman Pochekaev
“Higher School of Economics” University – St. Petersburg

Abstract.The article is an attempt to clarify the status of the Golden Horde officials mentioned in documents related to the relations of the Golden Horde with Italian colonies of Crimea and Northern Black Sea Region of 14th–15th cc. (khans’ yarliks, treaties with Venice and Genoa, Statute of Caffa). The comparison of function of these officials and ones fixed in other historical monuments allows authors to specify some titles of such officials and identify their place in the administrative hierarchy of the Jochi Ulus. There is the first introduction of the Russian translation of valuable historical source – a yarlik on the appointment of collector of taxes for Divan form the treaty named “Dastur al-katib” written by Muhammad b. Hindushah Nakhchivani in the Mongol Iran of 1360s. The results of research allow us to clarify some aspects of organization of the Golden Horde power and administration towards the Italian colonies on the territory of this state.

Keywords: Golden Horde, Italian colonies of the Northern Black Sea Region, Genovese Caffa, Venetian Tana, Golden Horde regional authorities, tax and duties, tax collectors

Financial Support: The study was supported by Ibn Sina Foundation and on a base of competition for the search of grants after Ibn Sina. Project no.: 2025.02.07.

For citation: Gatin M.S., Abzalov L.F., Mustakimov I.A., Pochekaev R.Yu. On the status of the Golden Horde officials in the Italian colonies of the Northern Black Sea Region. Krymskoe istoricheskoe obozrenie=Crimean Historical Review. 2025, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 53–67. DOI: 10.22378/kio.2025.4.53-67 (In Russian)

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About the authors: Marat S. Gatin – Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (44, Levo-Bulachnaya Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-7698-0450; marat_gata@mail.ru

Lenar F. Abzalov – Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (44, Levo-Bulachnaya Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0003-3952-6715; len_afzal@mail.ru

Ilias A. Mustakimov – Cand. Sci. (History), Associate Professor of the Department of History of Tatarstan, Kazan (Volga Region) Federal University (44, Levo-Bulachnaya Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); Leading Researcher of the National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan (86, Pushkin Str., Kazan 420111, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-0052-5136; imus2007@mail.ru

Roman Yu. Pochekaev – Dr. Sci. (History), Cand. Sci. (Jurisprudence), Associate Professor, Professor, Head of the Department of Theory and History of Law and State, “Higher School of Economics” University – St. Petersburg (3A, Kantemirovskaya Str., St. Petersburg 194100, Russian Federation); ORCID: 0000-0002-4192-3528; rpochekaev@hse.ru

Received 21.10.2025

Accepted 28.10.2025