A petition written in 1635 by the Kazan Tatars re-examined

Abstract

The article examines the petition of religious Kazan Tatars to a high official of
the Crimean khanate. The monument was first published in 1848 and translated into German,
and the document is currently stored in Dresden. The authors of the petition Express their
gratitude to the Crimean Khan for his conquests of Astrakhan and Kazan, for protection
from the infidel Muslim peoples of the Volga Region. The document justifies the economic
benefits of the conquered cities, from taxes collected from the population of the Volga region
in the form of honey and furs. The author of the article reveals the historical background of
the document creation, determines the date, addressees, and gives linguistic characteristics to
the monument. The author notes that the document is not the original, that it is a translation
of a text created later than the original. However, the petition recreates the idea of the original
in historical, cultural, and linguistic terms. The author of the article emphasizes that at least
one letter with such or similar content should have been written. The author also suggests that
the addressee of the petition is undoubtedly the Crimean mufti or Crimean Khan, but not the
Osman’s Sultan.