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"Moscow (AsiaNews) – A recently published book has generated a lot of buzz in Russia. Titled The Great Batu Khan, founder of Russian Statehood
(Великий хан Батый – основатель Российской государственности), the tome
is by Gennady A. Tjundeshev (Haramos), a historian at Khakassia State
University (in Asian Russia, where Tatar-Mongols hail from).
Its publication has revived the memory of the times of the "Tartar
yoke", when Russia was under Asian rule for more than two centuries,
between the 13th and the 15th centuries. It has also inspired some
comparisons, especially with President Putin, who was re-elected on 18
March and has acquired the status of tsar and great leader.
The great Batu Khan was the grandson of Genghis Khan, who, in 1240,
imposed the dominion of the so-called "Golden Horde" on the
principalities of ancient Kievan Rus, which disappeared from history as a
separate entity.
The Tatars were defeated for the first time in 1380 in the Battle of
Kulikovo. Dmitry Donskoj, Prince of Moscow, led the way inspired by
Sergius of Radonezh. Eventually, the city of Kyiv (Kiev) was against
itself by the 17th century, but Asian domination ended only in 1480
thanks to the great prince Ivan III, father of the ideology of Moscow as
the Third Rome. According to Tjundeshev’s interpretation, Russia has
never freed itself from the legacy of the Tatar Khans; instead, it has
made it the basis of its civilisation and state organisation.
The idea is not particularly new. Napoleon, contemplating Moscow burning
in 1812 from the walls of the Kremlin, uttered his famous words:
“Scratch a Russian, you find a Tatar”. Many historians recognise the
importance of the rule of the Golden Horde in the development of Russian
society. The word money, dénʹgi (деньги), comes from Mongolian and
survives in the memory of the taxes that Russians had to pay to the
Khans to obtain formal diplomas, Jarliq (ярлык), which today means
label, price tag, in modern Russian. Thus, today’s Russia is more
the offspring of the Golden Horde than Kievan Rus. Tsar Ivan the
Terrible, who conquered the last Kazan khanate in the 1500s,
incorporated the main Mongolian leaders into the Russian administration.
The tsar of "Holy Russia", to whom many today compare the reigning
president (Ivan IV and Putin IV), dropped out of government for a whole
year, putting one of his Mongol khans, Simeon Bekbulatovich, in his
place.
On 19 April, in an interview with Radio Svoboda, Tjundeshev reiterated
his thesis. "The Golden Horde introduced the imperial spirit to Russia,
and Batu Khan was the true founder of Russian statehood [. . .]. The
mindset of Russians is mainly Asian. Even if the population is of
European stock, only a small minority think within European parameters.
This is why,” says the Tatar scholar, “it is so difficult for Russians
to learn to be free; they always need a strong hand to rule them.”
“In the Russian Duma everyone always votes as the president wants, like
in the Kurultáj of Genghis Khan. The founder of the Mongol Empire at the
beginning of the 13th century was in reality a very advanced man for
his time, able to adapt to different situations and different cultures,
including religions. From the Tatars come nations such as China,
India, Turkey and Russia, which embrace different faiths like
Confucianism, Islam and Orthodox Christianity.”"
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