New documents on the history of the Arzamas, Kasimov and Tsna service Tatars (1640s)

Abstract

The work introduces into scientific circulation, investigates and publishes two sets of documents of the 1640s on the history of Arzamas, Kasimov and Tsna service Tatars, each of which includes the "memory" of the Kazan Palace Office to the Military Records Office and the nominal list of service people (the nominal list of "Alatortsy and Kurmyshane, nobleman and deti boyarskie, and Alator, and Arzamas, and Kasimov, and Temnikov, and Kadom princes, and Murzas, and Tatars of the 150 year, who must to be in the sovereign’s service in Pereslavl Rezansky from spring in the first half and who must to be to Moscow by the news in the other half"; the nominal list of "Tsna murzas and Tatars, who must to be in the sovereign’s service in Pereslavl Rezansky this year, in 153, in the first half and who must to be in the service by the news in the other half, and about the service they must to expect the sovereign’s decree"). All documents presented in the work were deposited in the fund of the Military Records Office of the Russian State Archive of Ancient Acts (RGADA). The article gives an archaeographic description of the published documents, and describes the information potential of the nominal lists of service people. The publication is addressed to specialists in social history, the history of public administration, the genealogy of service people, primarily Murzas and Tatar Cossacks, and the source studies of clerical work documents.

For citation: Belousov M.R. New documents on the history of the Arzamas, Kasimov and Tsna service Tatars (1640s). From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region. 2023, vol.13, no.4, pp.147–179. https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2023-13-4.147-179 (In Russian)