The entry of the Volga region into the Russian state. Development of the foundations of the national policy of tsarism and the annexation of the Volga region to Russia

Since the 16th and 17th centuries, the borders of the Russian state began to steadily expand in different directions. There were many reasons for this, and they were not uniform. The movement of Russians in the western, southwestern, and then eastern directions was dictated by the need to return and reunite former territories and related peoples Ancient Rus' into a single state, the imperial policy of protecting the Orthodox peoples inhabiting them from national and religious oppression, as well as the natural geopolitical desire to gain access to the sea and secure the borders of their possessions.

Annexation of Kazan and Astrakhan Khanates(in 1552 and 1556, respectively) happened for completely different reasons. Russia did not at all seek to seize these former Horde territories (with whose governments it immediately established diplomatic relations), since doing this after the collapse of the Horde was not particularly difficult, both for Ivan III and Vasily III, and young Ivan IV. However, this for a long time did not happen, since representatives of the Kasimov dynasty, friendly to Russia, were in power in the khanates at that time. When representatives of this dynasty were defeated by their competitors and a pro-Ottoman Crimean dynasty was established in Kazan (which by that time had become one of the centers of the slave trade) and Astrakhan, only then was a political decision made about the need to include these lands into Russia. The Astrakhan Khanate, by the way, was bloodlessly included in the Russian state.

In 1555, the Great Nogai Horde and the Siberian Khanate entered Russia's sphere of influence as vassals. Russian people come to the Urals, gain access to the Caspian Sea and the Caucasus. Most of the peoples of the Volga region and the North Caucasus, with the exception of part of the Nogais (Little Nogais, who in 1557 migrated and founded the Little Nogai Horde in the Kuban, from where they harassed the population of the Russian borders with periodic raids), submitted to Russia. Russia included the lands where the Chuvash, Udmurts, Mordovians, Mari, Bashkirs and many others lived. In the Caucasus were installed friendly relations with Circassians and Kabardians, other peoples of the North Caucasus and Transcaucasia. The entire Volga region, and therefore the entire Volga trade route, became Russian territories, on which new Russian cities immediately appeared: Ufa (1574), Samara (1586), Tsaritsyn (1589), Saratov (1590).

The entry of these lands into the empire did not lead to any discrimination or oppression of the ethnic groups inhabiting them. Within the empire, they fully preserved their religious, national and cultural identity, traditional way of life, as well as management systems. And most of them reacted to this very calmly: after all, the Moscow state was part of the Dzhuchiev ulus for a significant time, and Russia, which had adopted the experience of managing these lands accumulated by the Horde and was actively implementing it in the implementation of its internal imperial policy, was perceived by them as the natural heir to the Mongol proto-empire.

The subsequent advance of the Russians into Siberia was also not due to any national overarching goal or state policy of developing these lands. V.L. Makhnach explained the development of Siberia, which began in the 16th century, by two factors: first, the aggressive policy of the Siberian Khan Kuchum, who carried out constant raids on Stroganov’s possessions; secondly, the tyrannical rule of Ivan IV, fleeing whose repressions the Russian people fled to Siberia.

In the Siberian Khanate, which was formed around 1495 and which, in addition to the Siberian Tatars, included the Khanty (Ostyaks), Mansi (Voguls), Trans-Ural Bashkirs and other ethnic groups, there was a constant struggle for power between two dynasties - the Taibungs and the Sheibanids. In 1555, Khan Taibungin Ediger turned to Ivan IV with a request for citizenship, which was granted, after which the Siberian khans began to pay tribute to the Moscow government. In 1563, power in the Khanate was seized by Sheibanid Kuchum, who initially maintained vassalage relations with Russia, but later, taking advantage of the turmoil in the Russian state in 1572 after the Crimean Khan's raid on Moscow, broke off these relations and began to pursue a fairly aggressive policy towards the border lands Russian state.

The constant raids of Khan Kuchum prompted the eminent and wealthy trading people Stroganovs to organize a private military expedition to protect the borders of their possessions. They hire Cossacks led by Ataman Ermak Timofeevich, arm them, and they, in turn, unexpectedly defeat Khan Kuchum in 1581-1582, who, by the way, had established diplomatic relations with Moscow and seize the capital of the Siberian Khanate - Isker. The Cossacks, of course, could not solve the problem of settling and developing these lands, and perhaps they would have soon left Siberia, but a stream of fugitive Russian people poured into these lands, fleeing the repressions of Ivan the Terrible, who began to actively develop the sparsely populated new lands.

The Russians did not encounter much resistance in the development of Siberia. The Siberian Khanate was internally fragile and soon found itself annexed to Russia. Kuchum's military failures led to the resumption of civil strife in his camp. A number of Khanty and Mansi princes and elders began to provide assistance to Ermak with food, as well as pay yasak to the Moscow sovereign. The elders of the indigenous Siberian peoples were extremely pleased with the reduction in the size of the yasak that the Russians collected compared to the yasak that Kuchum took. And since there was a lot of free land in Siberia (you could walk a hundred or two hundred kilometers without meeting anyone), there was enough space for everyone (both Russian explorers and indigenous ethnic groups, most of whom were in homeostasis (the relict phase of ethnogenesis), which means , did not interfere with each other), the development of the territory proceeded at a rapid pace. In 1591, Khan Kuchum was finally defeated by Russian troops and submitted to the Russian sovereign. The fall of the Siberian Khanate, the only more or less strong state in these expanses, predetermined the further advance of the Russians across the Siberian lands and the development of the expanses of eastern Eurasia. Without encountering organized resistance, Russian explorers during the 17th century easily and quickly overcame and developed lands from the Urals to the Pacific Ocean, gaining a foothold in Siberia and the Far East.

The abundance and wealth of the Siberian lands in animals, furs, precious metals and raw materials, their sparse population and their remoteness from administrative centers, and therefore from the authorities and the possible arbitrariness of officials, attracted a large number of passionaries to them. Looking for “freedom” and a better life in new lands, they actively explored new spaces, moving through the forests of Siberia and without going beyond the river valleys, a landscape familiar to Russian people. Even rivers (natural geopolitical barriers) could no longer stop the pace of Russian advance to the East of Eurasia. Having overcome the Irtysh and Ob, the Russians reached the Yenisei and Angara, reached the shores of Lake Baikal, mastered the Lena basin and, reaching the Pacific Ocean, began exploring the Far East.

Coming to new, sparsely populated territories, explorers (mostly, initially Cossacks), interacting with the small local population, creating and equipping developed systems of forts (fortified settlements), gradually secured these lands for themselves. Following the pioneers, near the forts, whose garrisons needed to provide them with food and fodder, in fact complete absence routes for their delivery, peasants settled and settled. Mastering new forms of land cultivation and the peculiarities of conducting economic activities in everyday life, the Russians actively interacted with local residents, in turn, sharing with the latter own experience, including agricultural ones. In the vastness of Siberia, new Russian fortified cities began to appear one after another: Tyumen (1586), Tobolsk (1587), Berezov and Surgut (1593), Tara (1594), Mangazeya (1601), Tomsk (1604), Yeniseisk (1619) , Krasnoyarsk (1628), Yakutsk (1632), Okhotsk (1648), Irkutsk (1652).

In 1639, the Cossacks, led by I.Yu. Moskvitin reached the shores of the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. In 1643-1645, the expedition of V.D. Poyarkov and in 1648-1649 the expedition of E.P. Khabarov went to the Zeya River, and then to the Amur. From this moment, the active development of the Amur region began. Here the Russians encountered the Jurchens (Manchus), who paid tribute to the Qing Empire and retained a sufficient level of passion to stop the advance of the few explorers. As a result of several military campaigns, the Treaty of Nerchinsk (1689) was concluded between the Qing Empire and Russia. Expedition S.I. Dezhnev, moving along the Arctic Ocean along a different route in 1648, leaving the mouth of the Kolyma River, reached the shores of Anadyr, discovering the strait separating Asia from North America, and therefore a passage from the Arctic to the Pacific Ocean. In 1696 V.V. Atlasov carried out an expedition to Kamchatka. The migration of the Russian population led to the fact that Russia became an extremely vast, but sparsely populated country in which the shortage of population became very important factor, which subsequently affected the course of development of Russian history.

Contacts and interaction of Russian explorers with the local population took place in different ways: in some places there were armed clashes between explorers and aborigines (for example, at first in relations with the Buryats and Yakuts; however, the misunderstandings that arose were eliminated and did not acquire the nature of established interethnic enmity) ; but for the most part - the voluntary and willing submission of the local population, the search and requests for Russian help and their protection from stronger and more warlike neighbors. The Russians, having brought with them firm state power to Siberia, tried to take into account the interests of local residents, without encroaching on their traditions, beliefs, way of life, actively implementing the basic principle of internal imperial national policy - protecting small ethnic groups from oppression and extermination by larger ethnic groups. For example, the Russians actually saved the Evenks (Tungus) from extermination by the Yakuts, a larger ethnic group; stopped a series of bloody civil strife among the Yakuts themselves; eliminated the feudal anarchy that took place among the Buryats and most Siberian Tatars. The payment for ensuring the peaceful existence of these peoples was a fur tribute (not very burdensome, by the way - one or two sables a year); At the same time, it is characteristic that the payment of yasak was considered a sovereign service, for which the person who handed over the yasak received the sovereign's salary - knives, saws, axes, needles, fabrics. Moreover, foreigners who paid yasak had a number of privileges: for example, in the implementation of a special legal procedure in relation to them, as “yasak” people. Of course, given the remoteness from the center, some abuses by explorers periodically occurred, as well as arbitrariness of local governors, but these were local, isolated cases that did not become systematic and did not in any way affect the establishment of friendly and good-neighborly relations between the Russians and the local population.

Annexation of the Volga region to Russia.

In the 15th century, the Golden Horde, the great Mongol state, splits into many khanates.

On the lands along the banks of the Volga River (in the Volga region), the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates were formed.

Several trade routes from Europe to Asia passed through these places. Russia was interested in annexing these lands.

During the 15th and 16th centuries, Tatar troops from Kazan carried out repeated attacks on Russian cities and villages. They plundered Kostroma, Vladimir and even Vologda, and captured Russian people.

For a hundred years since 1450. to 1550 historians count eight wars, as well as many Tatar predatory campaigns on the lands of Moscow.

The father of Ivan the Terrible, Vasily III, declared war on Kazan.

And Ivan, as soon as he became king, immediately began to fight with Kazan.

First campaign (1547-1548). Due to the ensuing impassability and poor preparedness, Russian troops had to retreat from Kazan, devastating its surroundings.

Second campaign (1549-1550). This campaign also ended in failure, but the Sviyazhsk fortress was built near the border with the Kazan Khanate, which was supposed to become a support base for the next campaign.

Ivan the Terrible prepared very carefully for his new campaign.

A permanent Streltsy army, armed with firearms, was created.

New cannons have been created for besieging fortifications.

Soldiers began to be taught how to build fortifications and undermine enemy fortresses.

The Military Council was created.

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Ivan tried for forty-nine days to overcome Kazan. Khan held out for forty-nine days and did not surrender Kazan.

The Sovereign's regiments dug a tunnel near Kazan. The barrels of gunpowder were rolled high and wide.

On the fiftieth day, as soon as the shadow of the night fell, They secured the wicks and lit the candle on them.

Khanate of Kazan

After the capture of Kazan, all the Tatars who fell into the hands of Russian soldiers were exterminated by order of Ivan the Terrible. This is what the Tatars themselves usually did.

Ivan the Terrible called on local residents to voluntarily submit to Moscow rule, for which they retained their lands and the Muslim faith, and were also promised protection from external enemies.

Vast territories of the Volga region, where many peoples lived, were annexed to Russia: Bashkirs, Chuvashs, Tatars, Udmurts, Mari.

The Russian population began to gradually populate the rich Volga lands. Agriculture began to develop here. The local population adopted many useful economic skills from the settlers.

In 1556, Astrakhan was annexed to Russia without a fight.

The Volga River was completely in the possession of Russia, control was established over the Volga trade route.

Throughout eastern border peace came to the state, the capture of Russian people and their sale into slavery stopped.

The construction of new cities in the Volga region began.

Khanate of Kazan

Khanate of Astrakhan

Immediately after the annexation of the Kazan Khanate to Russia, a gold filigree crown, the Kazan Cap, was made for the first Russian Tsar.

In honor of the capture of Kazan, the victory over which coincided with church holiday Intercession Mother of God, in Moscow, on the square in front of the Kremlin, the Tsar ordered the construction of the Intercession Cathedral. Its construction lasted only 5 years, unlike European temples, which took centuries to create. It received its current name - St. Basil's Cathedral - in 1588 after the addition of a chapel in honor of this saint, since his relics were located on the site where the church was built.

Volga region - lands along the banks of the Volga.

Homework: pp. 35-37

After the Crimean party, hostile to Russia, came to power in the Kazan Khanate in 1521 and resumed raids on the border Russian lands, one of the main foreign policy tasks of the Moscow government was the military defeat of this Tatar state. The beginning of the campaigns against Kazan was somewhat delayed by the period of internal instability in the Russian state that occurred after the death of Elena Vasilievna Glinskaya. The first campaign began in 1545. The Moscow ship army of Prince S.I. Mikulinsky, I.B. Sheremetev and Prince D.I. Paletsky, uniting with the regiment of governor V.S. Serebryany-Obolensky that came from Vyatka, approached Kazan and ravaged her surroundings and returned back. The Perm militia of governor V. Lvov, operating separately from the main forces, was surrounded by the Tatars and defeated.

At the end of 1547, a new campaign against Kazan took place. With the Moscow army, which marched to Vladimir in December, where it was joined by regiments that came from other Russian lands, was Tsar Ivan IV. Due to an unprecedentedly warm winter, the army only reached Nizhny Novgorod and moved to the borders of the Kazan Khanate. Part of the “battering squad” (siege artillery) sank in the Volga while crossing the river. Without waiting for the end of the campaign, Ivan IV returned to Moscow. The chief governor, Prince D.F. Belsky, was able to reach Kazan and in the battle on the Arsk field defeated the troops of Khan Safa-Girey, however, having lost many people during the siege that began, he left from near the city to the Russian border.

The campaign of 1549–1550 was also unsuccessful. It became inevitable after Moscow received news of the death of Chaia Safa-Girey on March 25, 1549. The Kazan people tried to get a new “tsar” from Crimea, but their ambassadors failed to complete the mission entrusted to them. As a result, Safa-Girey’s two-year-old son, Utemysh-Girey, was proclaimed the new khan, in whose name his mother, Khansha Syuyun-Bike, began to rule. The Russian government decided to take advantage of the dynastic crisis that had arisen in Kazan and strike a powerful blow to the Tatar Khanate. The army was escorted on the campaign by Metropolitan Macarius and the Krutitsky Bishop Sava, who had specially arrived in Vladimir. The Metropolitan's message contains an extremely important call addressed to the governors and boyar children: to go on a campaign “without places.” Having received the blessing of the metropolitan, the tsar, at the head of the assembled regiments, set out “for his own business and for the zemstvo” to Nizhny Novgorod, from where on January 23, 1550. Russian army headed down the Volga to Tatar land.

The regiments arrived near Kazan on February 12 and began preparing for the siege of a well-fortified fortress. However weather were again not on their side. According to the chroniclers, there came “at that time... an unmeasured phlegm; and it was not powerful to shoot from cannons and arquebuses, and it was not possible to approach the city for the phlegm. The Tsar and Grand Duke We stood near the city for 11 days, and it rained all day long and the heat and wetness were great; small rivers were spoiled, and many others passed through, but you don’t want to approach the city for wetness.” On February 25, 1550, the siege was lifted and the Russian army went to their cities.

The main reason for the failure of these campaigns was the inability to establish proper supplies for the troops. To rectify the situation, in 1551, at the mouth of the Sviyash River (20 versts from Kazan), the Russian fortress of Sviyazhsk was built, which became a Russian outpost in the Kazan Khanate. It was built in just four weeks, despite the miscalculation of the builders, who incorrectly determined the length of the walls of the future city. This is clearly stated in the chronicle: “The city that was brought from above became a mountain on half of it, and the governors and boyar children immediately made the other half their people.”

The main set of walls and towers, as well as living quarters and two temples of the future stronghold in the winter of 1550–1551. prepared on the Upper Volga in Uglitsky district, in the estate of the Ushaty princes. Its construction was supervised by the sovereign's clerk I.G. Vyrodkov, who was to not only build the fortress, but then deliver it disassembled to the mouth of the Sviyaga. This most complex engineering operation was accompanied by a number of events designed to change the course of military operations against the Volga Tatars.

The main role in the action to cover the fortification work on Kruglaya Gora was given to the raid of Prince P.S. Serebryany, who received the order in the spring of 1551 to go with the regiments “we will drive them to the Kazan settlement.” At the same time, the Vyatka army of B. Zyuzin and the Volga Cossacks were supposed to take over all transportation along the main transport arteries of the Khanate: the Volga, Kama and Vyatka. To help Zyuzin, 2.5 thousand foot Cossacks, led by atamans Severga and Elka, were sent from Meshchera. They had to go through the “Field” to the Volga and “do the courts and go up the Volga to fight the Kazan places.” Further chronicles of this war mention Ataman Severga in connection with his actions on Vyatka as part of the army of Governor Zyuzin, which indicates the successful completion of the Cossack campaign from Meshchera to the Volga. Other detachments of service Cossacks operated in the Lower Volga region. Nuradin (the title of the heir to the ruler of the Nogai Horde) Izmail complained to Tsar Ivan IV about them, writing that his Cossacks “took both banks from the Volga and took away our freedom and our uluses are fighting.”

The army of Prince Serebryany set out from Nizhny Novgorod for Kazan on May 16, 1551, and already on May 18 was under the walls of the city. The attack came as a complete surprise to the Tatars. The Russian soldiers managed to break into the settlement and, taking advantage of the surprise of their attack, inflict significant damage on the enemy. However, the Kazan people managed to seize the initiative from the attackers, pushing them back to the ships. During the counterattack, 50 archers were surrounded and captured, along with the archery centurion A. Skoblev.

Having retreated from Kazan, the army of Prince Serebryany set up camp on the Sviyaga River, awaiting the arrival of Shah Ali's army there and the delivery of the main structures of the future fortress. The huge river caravan set out in April, and approached Round Mountain only at the end of May 1551.

In April, the army of governors M.I. Voronoi and G.I. Filippov-Naumov moved from Ryazan “to the Field”. They were given the task of interrupting communication between Kazan and Crimea.

The activity of the Russian troops stunned the people of Kazan and diverted their attention from the large construction work that began on May 24 at the mouth of Sviyaga.

The fortress walls of Sviyazhsk stretch for 1200 fathoms. The spindles (sections of the wall between the towers) consisted of 420 towns; the fortress had 11 towers, 4 archers and 6 gates; the walls and towers had 2 tiers of loopholes intended for artillery and rifle fire.

The construction of a strong fortress in the very heart of the Tatar state demonstrated the strength of Moscow and contributed to the beginning of the transition to the Russian side of a number of Volga peoples - the Chuvash and Cheremis-Mari. The complete blockade of the Khanate's waterways by Moscow troops aggravated the difficult situation.

The new government, headed by Otlay Khudai-Kul and Prince Nur-Ali Shirin, was forced to negotiate with the Russian authorities. On August 11, 1551, the Kazan ambassadors Prince Bibars Rastov, Mullah Kasim and Khoja Ali-Merden agreed to extradite Khan Utemysh and the “queen” Syuyun-Bika, recognize the annexation of the Mountainous (western) side of the Volga to Russia, prohibit Christian slavery and accept the Shah, who was pleasing to Moscow, as khan. - Ali. On August 14, 1551, a kurultai was held on a field at the mouth of the Kazanka River (7 km from Kazan), at which the Tatar nobility and clergy approved the concluded agreement. On August 16, the ceremonial entry of the new khan into Kazan took place. Together with him, “for full and other administrative matters,” came Russian representatives: boyar I. I. Khabarov and clerk I. G. Vyrodkov, to whom 2,700 of the most prominent Russian prisoners were transferred the next day.

The reign of the new Kazan “tsar” did not last long. Shah Ali could protect himself and his few supporters in only one way: by replenishing the Kazan garrison at the expense of Russian troops. But, despite the precariousness of the situation, the khan agreed to bring only 300 Kasimov princes, Murzas and Cossacks and 200 Russian archers into Kazan. Meanwhile, Shah Ali’s forced agreement to fulfill a number of demands of the Moscow Tsar, including the surrender of 60 thousand Russian prisoners, completely undermined the authority of the Kazan government. Moscow's refusal to Shah Ali's requests to return the residents of the "mountainous" half of the Khanate who had sworn allegiance to Russia to Kazan's rule caused even greater discontent among the Tatars. Khan tried to suppress the opposition by force, but the repressions that began only worsened the situation.

In this regard, in Moscow, where they closely followed the developments in Kazan, they began to be inclined to accept the proposal expressed by supporters of the Russian Tsar from among the Kazan nobility: to remove Shah Ali and replace him with a Russian governor. Unexpected actions of the khan, who learned about the upcoming transfer of power direct representative Moscow and decided to leave the throne without waiting for official notification, confused the cards of supporters of such a castling. March 6, 1552 Shah Ali, under the pretext of a trip to fishing left Kazan. Having captured the princes and Murzas accompanying him as hostages (84 people in total), he went under Russian protection to Sviyazhsk. Soon after this, Moscow governors were sent to Kazan, but they failed to enter the city. On March 9, 1552, incited by princes Islam and Kebek and Murza Alikey Parykov, the townspeople rebelled. During the coup, a party of supporters of resuming the war with Russia, led by Prince Chapkun Otuchev, came to power. The Astrakhan prince Ediger became the new khan, whose troops began military operations against Russian troops, trying to clear the Mountain half of the Khanate from them.

Preparations for a new campaign against Kazan immediately begin in Moscow. The blockade of the Kazan river routes by Russian outpost detachments was resumed. At the end of March - April 1552, siege artillery, ammunition and food were sent to Sviyazhsk from Nizhny Novgorod. In May, a large army (150 thousand people) was assembled in Moscow to be sent to Kazan. However, it set out on a campaign only on June 3, 1552, after part of the assembled troops, advancing to Tula, repelled the attack of the Crimean Tatars of Khan Devlet-Girey. Walking an average of 25 versts a day, the Russian army approached the capital of the Kazan Khanate on August 13. During the siege of the fortress, it was bombed, gunpowder bombs were placed under the walls, and a movable 13-meter siege tower was built, which rose “higher than the city of Kazan.” It was equipped with 10 large and 50 small guns - one-and-a-half and zatina arquebuses (serf large-caliber guns). When everything was ready for a general assault on Kazan, surrounded on all sides, on October 1, 1552, the Russian command sent a parliamentarian, Murza Kamai, to the city with a final offer of surrender. It was rejected - the Kazan team decided to defend themselves to the end.

The next day, October 2, 1552, Russian troops immediately launched an attack on the city fortifications from seven sides. The signal for the assault was the explosion of mine galleries placed under the walls of the fortress, into which 48 barrels of gunpowder were placed. Ivan the Terrible himself, who was attending a solemn liturgy in his camp church, having heard terrible explosions in Kazan, came out of the tent and saw those flying in different sides remains of fortifications. Sections of the walls between the Atalykov Gate and the Nameless Tower and between the Tsarev and Arsky Gates were blown up. The fortifications that surrounded the city from the Arsk field were almost completely destroyed, and Russian troops were able to freely break into the fortress.

The main battle broke out on the crooked streets of the Tatar capital. The Kazan people refused to give up and fought to the death. One of the most stubborn centers of defense was the main Kazan mosque on the Tezitsky ravine. All those who defended her, including Imam Kul-Sheriff, died. The last battle took place on the square in front of the Khan's palace. Khan Ediger was captured. Prince Zeniet and the khan's two foster brothers were captured along with him. Only a few warriors escaped death from those defenders of the city who rushed from the walls and fled to the Arsky forest, escaping the pursuit of the shallow Kazanka River.

Thus, as a result of a month and a half siege and a bloody assault on October 2, 1552, Kazan fell, becoming the center of Russian rule in the Middle Volga region. After the suppression of several Tatar and Mari uprisings, the territory of the Kazan Khanate became part of the Moscow state.

Next to the Kazan Khanate, in the lower reaches of the Volga, there was another Tatar state - the Astrakhan Khanate. It arose at the beginning of the 16th century. after the final defeat of the Great Horde by the army of the Crimean Khan Mengli-Girey (1502). The capital of the Khanate was the city of Khadzhi-Tarkhan (Astrakhan). Taking advantage of the exceptionally favorable position of their possessions in the Volga delta, the Astrakhan khans controlled the trade of Rus' and Kazan with the countries of the East. Until the conquest

Russia maintained slavery and the slave trade here. The Astrakhan Tatars more than once took part in the campaigns of the Crimean and other Tatar hordes on Russian lands; they sold captured slaves in the markets of Hadji-Tarkhan. However, relations with Bakhchisarai were difficult. The Gireys tried to capture the Lower Volga region more than once, and the Astrakhan people took part in the Nogai raids for Perekop.

After the construction of the Sviyazhsk fortress and the forced consent of the Kazan beks to accept vassalage from the Moscow state, the desire of the new Astrakhan khan Yamgurchi to strengthen the alliance and friendship with Ivan IV strengthened, but not for long. Already in the next 1552 (apparently, after the expulsion of Shah Ali from Kazan), Yamgurchi, having violated the agreement with Russia, insulted the Russian ambassador Sevastyan Avraamov, sent him to Caspian Islands and robbed the Russian embassy. The Crimean Khan Devlet-Girey becomes a new ally of the Astrakhan Khan. In the same 1552, he sent Yamgurchi 13 cannons. Alarmed by this alliance, the Nogai Mirzas sent their envoys to Moscow. They proposed to overthrow Yamgurchi and place “king” Dervish-Ali (Derbysh) on the khan’s throne, in 1537–1539 and 1549–1550. already occupied the Astrakhan throne. The new contender was the sister of the Nogai Mirza Ismail. Dervish-Ali was urgently summoned to Moscow, where he was informed of his appointment as the new khan.

In the early spring of 1554, the 30,000-strong Russian army of the governor of the prince set out on a campaign against Astrakhan Yuri Ivanovich Pronsky-Shemyakia. On June 2, 1554, it occupied Hadji-Tarkhan without a fight. Dervish Ali became the new khan. His power was initially recognized by 500 princes and murzas and 7 thousand “black people” who remained in their nomads. But soon the noble Tatar Yenguvat-azei returned, “and with him many malls and azeis and all sorts of 3,000 people, and they brought justice to the king and the great prince and king Derbysh.” The new khan complied with Moscow's demand by freeing Russian prisoners. He also pledged to pay annual tribute to the Moscow Tsar: 40 thousand altyns (1200 rubles in silver) and 3 thousand “sturgeon per fathom.”

A month later, the Russian regiments left Astrakhan, leaving a detachment in the city under the command of the governor Peter Dmitrievich Turgenev, who became the governor under Dervish-Ali.

In the spring of 1555, the former Khan Yamgurchi, having enlisted the support of Crimea and Turkey, attempted to regain the throne by attacking Astrakhan twice. In his army there were not only Astrakhan and Nogai Murzas, but also Turkish Janissaries. In April 1555, during the first attack, Russian archers and Cossacks managed to repel the attack, putting the enemy to flight. In May there was a new attack by Yamgurchi. Detailed information about him was preserved in a message to Moscow from Governor Turgenev. This time events took an unexpected turn. Dervish-Ali was able to come to an agreement with the Nogai Mirzas, sons of Yusuf, who were in the enemy army, who helped him defeat Yamgurchi’s troops. In gratitude for this help, Dsrvish-Ali transported the rebel Nogais across the Volga, where they began military operations against Moscow’s ally, the Nogai biy (prince) Ishmael. A detachment of the Streltsy head Grigory Kaftyrev and the Cossack ataman Fyodor Pavlov was sent from Moscow to help Pyotr Turgenev. However, they met the Astrakhan governor on the Volga, on the road to Moscow. Turgenev informed Kaftyrev that Dervish-Ali had “let him go” and was seeking support from the Crimean Khan Devlet-Girey. Hastening to Astrakhan, Kaftyrev found the city abandoned by its inhabitants. He managed to send Dervish-Ali a message about his readiness to restore good neighborly relations between Moscow and Astrakhan and the partial satisfaction of his requests by the Moscow Tsar. The Astrakhan residents returned to the city, but in March of the following 1556, the Nogai prince Izmail informed the Russian government that Dervish-Ali had finally betrayed Russia.

Indeed, incited by new allies from among the Nogai “Yusuf’s children” and Astrakhan advisers, Dervish-Ali attacked the Russian detachment of Leonty Mansurov stationed in Astrakhan and forced him to leave the territory of the Khanate. The town where L. Mansurov was held was set on fire with the help of supplied oil. It was not possible to escape on the ships - they were “cut through” with their feet. Nevertheless, Mansurov managed to escape on a raft to the Upper Fortress, where the main forces of his detachment were, with only seven people remaining with him.

Fearing retaliatory actions from the Moscow government, he then turned for help to the Crimean Khan Devlet-Girey, who hastened to send a small detachment (700 Crimean Tatars, 300 Janissaries) to Hadji-Tarkhan. These forces were not enough to successfully resist the Russian army, which included the Streltsy orders of Ivan Cheremesinov and Timofey Pukhov-Teterin, the Vyatka army of the governor Fyodor Pisemsky and the Cossack detachments of Mikhail Kolupaev and the Volga ataman Lyapun Filimonov. Filimonov's Cossack detachment, sent on a campaign on skis in winter, was the first to approach Hadji-Tarkhan, although he had only 500 Cossacks, Filimonov managed to break into the city and inflicted a heavy defeat on the Astrakhan army. Dervish-Ali retreated, counting on the support of the Nogai Murzas allied to him. But the “Yusuf’s children” came to an agreement with Uncle Ishmael and, having submitted to the Russian governors, attacked Dervish-Ali. In the battle he lost all the Crimean cannons. On August 26, 1556, Astrakhan and the entire Khanate became part of the Russian state.

With the remnants of the defeated army, the last Astrakhan khan fled to Azov. The result of the ended war was summed up by S. M. Soloviev: “So the mouth of the Volga was finally secured for Moscow.” In 1557, the Nogai biy Izmail recognized vassal dependence on Moscow.

The annexation of the Kazan land (1552), the Astrakhan Khanate (1556) and the Nogai Horde (1557) to the Moscow state did not mean the complete conquest of the Middle and Lower Volga region. Rebellions in this then still turbulent region continued throughout the second half of the 16th century, diverting Russian armed forces that were urgently needed on other frontiers.

• The gorodnya is a separate, closed frame, filled with sand or earth with stones. When placed together, the gorodnya formed “spinnings” - the walls of the fortresses.
• The Kazan Khanate was divided by the Volga River into Gornaya (left bank) and Lugovaya (right bank) parts.
• Sister (obsolete) – nephew, sister’s son.
• Soloviev S. M. Essays. M.: Mysl, 1989. Book. III. P. 473.

Expansion of the territory of the Russian state. Annexation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates, the territories of the Volga region, the Urals, and Siberia.

The main tasks in the field of Russian foreign policy in the 16th century. were:

In the west - the need to have access to the Baltic Sea,

In the southeast and east - the fight against the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates and the beginning of the development of Siberia,

In the south - protecting the country from the attacks of the Crimean Khan.

Appendix 21 to topic 3.1. Foreign policy of Ivan the Terrible.

The Kazan and Astrakhan khanates, formed as a result of the collapse of the Golden Horde, constantly threatened Russian lands.

They controlled the Volga trade route.

Finally, these were areas of fertile land, which the Russian nobility had long dreamed of.

The peoples of the Volga region - the Mari, Mordovians, Chuvash - sought liberation.

The solution to the problem of subjugation of the Kazan and Astrakhan khanates was possible in two ways:

Or plant your proteges in these states,

Or conquer them.

After a series of unsuccessful diplomatic attempts to subjugate the Kazan Khanate in 1552, the 150,000-strong army of Ivan IV besieged Kazan, which at that time was a first-class military fortress .

To facilitate the task of taking Kazan, a wooden fortress was built in the upper reaches of the Volga (in the Uglich area), which, disassembled, was floated down the Volga until the Sviyaga River flows into it. The city of Sviyazhsk was built here, which became a stronghold in the struggle for Kazan. Work on the construction of this fortress was headed by a talented master, the first Russian military engineer Ivan Vyrodkov ( the portrait has not survived). He also supervised the construction of mine tunnels and siege devices.

Kazan was taken by storm October 2, 1552 As a result of the explosion of 48 barrels of gunpowder placed in the tunnels, part of the wall of the Kazan Kremlin was destroyed. Russian troops broke into the city through breaks in the wall. Khan Yadigir-Magmet was captured.

Appendix 22 to topic 3.1. Triptych "The Capture of Kazan".

Subsequently, the khan was baptized, received the name Simeon Kasaevich, became the owner of Zvenigorod and an active ally of the tsar.

Four years after the capture of Kazan V 1556 was annexed Astrakhan . Chuvashia and most of Bashkiria voluntarily became part of Russia. The Nogai Horde recognized its dependence on Russia.

Thus, new fertile lands and the entire Volga trade route became part of Russia. The Russian lands were freed from the invasions of the Khan's troops. Russia's ties with the peoples of the North Caucasus and Central Asia have expanded.

The annexation of Kazan and Astrakhan opened up the opportunity to advance into Siberia.

Rich merchant-industrialists the Stroganovs received charters from Ivan the Terrible to own lands along the Tobol River. Using their own funds, they formed a detachment of 840 (according to other sources 600) people from free Cossacks, led by Ermak Timofeevich. In 1581, Ermak and his army penetrated the territory of the Siberian Khanate, and a year later defeated the troops of Khan Kuchum and took his capital Kashlyk (Isker).

Appendix 23 to topic 3.1. Portrait of Ermak.

The annexation of the Volga region and Siberia had a general effect positive value for the peoples of this region: they became part of a state that was at a higher level of economic and cultural development.

The local ruling class eventually became part of the Russian one.

In connection with the beginning of development in the 16th century. Wild Field territory(fertile lands south of Tula) The Russian government was faced with the task of strengthening the southern borders from the raids of the Crimean Khan.

For this purpose, Tula (from the middle of the 16th century) and Belgorod (in the 30s - 40s of the 17th century) were built. serif strokes- defensive lines, consisting of forest rubble - notches, in the gaps between which wooden fortresses - forts - were placed, closing the passages in the notches for the Tatar cavalry.

Ivan the Terrible for 25 years (1558-1583) waged a stubborn and exhausting war for the control of the Baltic states, which is known as Livonian War. However, after such powerful military states of the time as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Sweden entered the war against Russia, military failures began to haunt the Russian troops. Russia was ultimately defeated in the Livonian War. She lost access to the Gulf of Finland.

The country was devastated, the central and northwestern territories were depopulated. Negative consequences The Livonian War to a large extent subsequently influenced the emergence of such a phenomenon in Russian history as the Time of Troubles.

However, by the end of the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the country's territory had increased more than 10 times compared to the time of Ivan III and represented a huge empire stretching from the coast White Sea to the Caspian Sea and from the Urals - to the borders with the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

5. Dynastic crisis in late XVI V. The reign of Boris Godunov. " Time of Troubles": imposture, civil war, Polish-Swedish intervention. The rise of national consciousness, the restoration of Russian statehood.

Turbulent events early XVII centuries in Russia were called " Time of Troubles" or "Troubles". It was a period of general disobedience, numerous peasant and Cossack unrest and uprisings, a rapid change of kings and the political orientation of the people, as well as a period of foreign intervention.

The causes of the Troubles were the aggravation of social, class, dynastic and international relations at the end of the reign of Ivan IV the Terrible and under his successors.

In the development of the Troubles, several stages:

1. First - 1598 – 1605 −

dynastic and political crises:

Suppression Rurik dynasty,

Election of Boris Godunov,

The struggle for power among the elite, the appearance of False Dmitry I in Poland; economic crisis:

Famine and flight of peasants;

2. Second - 1605 – 1610 -

social crisis:

- reign of the impostor False Dmitry I,

The reign and overthrow of Shuisky,

Peasant war led by I. Bolotnikov,

Moscow’s loss of significance as a political center and the emergence of “thieves’ capitals”

Betrayal of the boyars,

Active intervention of the Poles in internal Moscow affairs;

3. Third - 1610 – 1613 −

national crisis:

The actual collapse of the state,

Open Polish-Swedish intervention and a clear threat of loss of independence,

Claims of Sigismund III to the Moscow throne.

Appendix 24 to topic 3.1. Scheme “Time of Troubles. Causes of the Time of Troubles."

Appendix 25 to topic 3.1. Scheme "Time of Troubles".

The Livonian War (1558–1583) and the oprichnina led to the economic ruin of the country and to increased exploitation of peasants and townspeople. As a result, a mass exodus of peasants began from central regions to the Don. This deprived landowners of workers, and the state of taxpayers.

The measures taken by the government to solve this problem led to the approval serfdom in Russia.

In the XIV–XV centuries. peasants who lived on the lands of feudal lords had the right to freely transfer from one owner to another and often used this right.

At the end of the 16th century. a number of decrees were issued that limited and then abolished this right. In 1597, a royal decree was issued on a five-year period for searching for fugitive peasants (the so-called “ lesson summer"). The establishment of serfdom led to an aggravation of social contradictions in the country and created the basis for mass popular uprisings in the 17th century.

At the turn of the 16th–17th centuries, the dynastic crisis contributed to increased instability in the country.

Dynastic crisis at the end of the 16th century. The reign of Boris Godunov.

After the death of Ivan IV the Terrible in 1584, the throne passed to his son Fedor Ivanovich.

Appendix 26 to topic 3.1. Portrait of Fyodor Ioannovich.

However, he was unable to govern the state.

In fact, power ended up in the hands of the boyar Boris Godunov- brother of the wife of Tsar Fyodor Ivanovich.

The youngest son of Ivan IV the Terrible was only two years old. He lived in Uglich with his mother Maria Naga, who was the seventh wife of Ivan the Terrible.

Tsar Fedor was childless, and in the event of his death, Tsarevich Dmitry became the heir to the throne. However, in 1591, Tsarevich Dmitry mysteriously died. According to the official version, the child stabbed himself with a knife during a fit of epilepsy.

However, many contemporaries believed that the prince was stabbed to death by assassins sent by Boris Godunov. After the death of Fyodor Ivanovich in 1598, the ruling Rurik dynasty ceased to exist.

The Zemsky Sobor of 1598 elected Tsar Boris Godunov.

Appendix 27 to topic 3.1. Portrait of Boris Godunov.

During the reign of Boris Godunov, the difficult situation of the population worsened famine of 1601–1603 During the famine, about 1/3 of the country's population died. People explained this disaster as the wrath of God for the sins of the illegal Tsar Boris. Rumors began to spread that Tsarevich Dmitry was alive.

“Time of Troubles”: imposture, civil war, Polish-Swedish intervention.

In 1602, the first impostor. This was a man who called himself Tsarevich Dmitry and the legal heir to the throne.

False Dmitry I, who officially called himself Tsarevich (then Tsar) Dmitry Ioannovich, in relations with foreign states - Emperor Dimitri (lat. Demetreus Imperator) (d. May 17, 1606) - Tsar of Russia from June 1, 1605 to May 17 (27), 1606, according to established in historiographical opinion - an impostor who pretended to be the miraculously saved youngest son of Ivan IV the Terrible - Tsarevich Dmitry. The first of three impostors who called themselves the son of Ivan the Terrible and laid claim to the Russian throne.

Appendix 28 to topic 3.1. Portrait of False Dmitry I.

The identification of False Dmitry I with the fugitive monk of the Chudov Monastery Grigory Otrepyev was first put forward as an official version by the government of Boris Godunov in his correspondence with King Sigismund. Currently, this version has the most supporters.

The most important stage in the history of the formation of Russian statehood is the entry of the peoples of the Volga region into the state. This contributed to the ethnic development of the Russian people.

A significant point in considering this topic is the history of relations between Russia and the Volga people before the annexation. It is known that the Kazan khans, who were directly related to the Volga region, often raided Russian lands for several centuries.

Prerequisites for the annexation of the Volga region

The need to annex the territory of the Volga region was due to the Russian state as well as significant economic reasons trade routes through the Volga and fertile lands, both political and social.

The state wanted to put an end to the raids of the Kazan khans on Russian lands and peoples. From 1547 to 1550 two unsuccessful campaigns were carried out against the Kazan Khanate.

The state had high hopes for the capture of the Khanate. For the Russian people, the constant capture of prisoners, who were taken to the Kazan Khanate and then sold on the markets of Central Asia, Crimea and North Africa, was a huge loss.

The Khanate also prevented the development of an active foreign policy in the West. But still, through military force, the peoples of the Volga region joined Russia. On October 2, 1552, Kazan was taken by storm, and in 1556 the Russians captured Astrakhan.

The Khanate of these cities fell, and this created favorable conditions for the entry of peoples who were under the influence of the khanates into the Russian state. The Mari, Chuvash, Mordovians and peoples of Bashkiria voluntarily joined Russia.

One of main reason This was the desire of these peoples to free themselves from the power of the Khanate.

Tribes of Bashkiria

The peoples of Bashkiria were convinced of the power of Russia, and therefore sought to reunite with it. But the annexation was somewhat delayed, mainly because the Tatar feudal lords tried to restore their power.

But the people themselves wanted to be freed from the terrible and unjust oppression of foreign khans. The Western Bashkir tribes were the first to accept citizenship of the Russian state.

Following them, the southern and central tribes of Bashkiria did this, but for them this process was burdened by the power of the Nogai Murzas and princes. Gradually, the Nogai rulers weakened, the peoples of Bashkiria fought against their power and oppression.

The Bashkirs of four tribes sent their representatives to Kazan with the message that they were accepting Russian citizenship. By the beginning of 1557, almost the entire territory of Bashkiria and all its tribes became part of the Russian state.

Thus, it is important to note that the annexation of the Volga peoples and the territory of Bashkiria occurred in a fairly short period of time, the entry began with the fall of the Kazan and Khanate and ended with the acceptance of Russian citizenship by the Bashkir tribes in 1557.

Such historical changes opened up an important route to Siberia for Russia, which was famous for its natural resources. A dozen years later, the Siberian Khanate also fell, and in 1586 and 1587 two big cities Tyumen and Tobolsk, which became the Russian center in Siberia.