Pictures of the Horde yoke. Seleznev Yu.

One of the leading domestic experts in the history of Russian-Horde relations Yuri Seleznev set out to look at them through the eyes of the participants themselves and in this way-on the basis of all the sources available to the modern researcher-to reconstruct their nodal moments.

We are present During the training camps of the Russian princes in the Horde, we will accompany them on the road, watch them in a khan's headquarters in the barn or in the places of nomadic, we witness the heroism of some and the humility of others, we see how they are executed and sweetened, or even complain of marriage to women from the genus Genghisides. We learn what role he was assigned to the Golden Horde hierarchy, about their service in the Khan's guard and campaigns in Rus' at the head of the Horde detachments. And, despite all this, we feel how steadily, obeying its inner logic, a spring of events is spinning, and the unconditional recognition of the Horde power is replaced by a passionate desire to throw off the hated yoke.

Yuri Seleznev - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor , Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russia of Voronezh University.