Rehabilitation of the Crimean Khanate by Historians in a five-volumes book about the Crimean Tatars

Author of the article analyzes 3rd volume History Crimean Tatars, dedicated to Khanate the15th–18th centuries, published in Kazan 2021, and resulted from 2-year international research project aiming produce first academic Tatars a five volumes. This is pioneering valuable covering whole period history, its formation half 15th century annexation Russian Empire under reign Catherine Great, who abolished 1783. The book discusses different aspects Khanate’s everyday life: conquests frequent raids against non-Muslim neighbors, foreign domestic politics, Tatars’ economy, slave trade, spiritual material culture, religion, military affairs, demography, their relationship with ethnic confessional minorities Diaspora abroad, images as Other constructed later Orientalized by travelers observers Western Europe, Ukraine Russia. In fact, this rehabilitates Khanate, showing that it was not just robber’s nest, living off on neighbors late Soviet literature argued. study fills significant gap contemporary historiography subject field Oriental, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian studies. It also contributes comparative history northern Black sea area at turn early modern times. noteworthy new series does dismiss legacy anti-Crimean categorically, but attempts rethink all creatively, starting pre-revolutionary classic written V.D. Smirnov. resumes revisionist Perestroika present day proposing possible alternative readings history.