Open AccessPlague Epidemic of 1770–1771 and the Tatar Sloboda in Moscow
Author(s) -
D. Z. Khayretdinov
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
islam v sovremennom mire
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2618-7221
pISSN - 2074-1529
DOI - 10.22311/2074-1529-2021-17-3-123-144
Subject(s) - tatar , plague (disease) , census , population , history , geography , ancient history , demography , sociology , linguistics , philosophy
The article deals with the history of the Tatar Sloboda in Moscow at the end of the 18 th century, when a small Tatar Muslim community of the second Russian capital experienced upheavals in connection with the plague epidemic of 1770–1771. As a result of the epidemic, the number of the community and of the Tatar households in Moscow has significantly decreased; the old cemetery behind the Kaluga Gate was taken from the Tatars. In addition, this group of the population, which developed as an ethnoconfessional one, lost its sacred center — a mosque in Ovchinnaya Sloboda on Tatarskaya Street. The scientific novelty of the article consists in the publication of archival documents from the repositories of Moscow, including the first published document from the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts with the data of the census of the Tatar Sloboda in 1773.