Open AccessTatar Settlements of Kazan and Astrakhan in the Second Half of the 18<sup>th</sup> — Early 20<sup>th</sup> Centuries: Culture And Development
Author(s) -
А. Ю. Хабутдинов,
Marina М. Imasheva,
Milyausha Mukhametsyanovna Khabutdinova
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
islam v sovremennom mire
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-7221
pISSN - 2074-1529
DOI - 10.22311/2074-1529-2020-16-2-139-158
Subject(s) - tatar , ancient history , identity (music) , human settlement , population , state (computer science) , clan , confessional , history , geography , political science , sociology , archaeology , law , demography , art , politics , philosophy , linguistics , algorithm , computer science , aesthetics
The article deals with the history of formation and development of cultural landscapes of the two largest urban Tatar communities of pre-revolutionary Russia, namely of Kazan and Astrakhan. Both Astrakhan and Kazan are two centers of the Turkic–Tatar world, the history of which traces back to the Golden Horde. The both were the capitals of independent Tatar states- khanates and the both became in the middle of the XVI century the part of the Russian state. In the second half of the XVIII — early XX centuries, Tatar Muslim communities were formed in the both cities, which have had their own cultural and national identity. The Muslim population sought to preserve and develop their ethno- confessional identity. All these circumstances shaped a special cultural landscape of the Tatar settlement within the borders of the provincial Russian cities in the Modern age.