“The Estate of Citizens of the Tatar Sloboda”: On the History of the Tatar-Muslim Community of Moscow at the Beginning of the 19th Century
https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-1-93-114
Abstract
The article deals with a period when, at the beginning of the 19th century, the indigenous inhabitants of Moscow, the Tatars of the Tatar Sloboda (Settlement in Zamoskvorechye region), were forced to change their status, trying to enroll in the merchant class. However, the Merchant Society repeatedly refused them, referring to their confession of Islam. As a result, the Tatar Sloboda was volitionally ranked among the peasant TroitskoGolenishchevo volost located in the Moscow region. In present article, for the fi rst time, the documents of the Central State Archive of Moscow with the data of the VI, VII and VIII revisions (1811, 1816 and 1834) for the Tatar Sloboda, as well as the register of 1815 compiled at the request of the Spiritual Consistory for the opening of a training class of the Tatar language for the purpose of religious missionary work, are introduced into scientifi c circulation.
About the Author
D. Z. Khayretdinov
Moscow Islamic Institute
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Damir Z. KHAYRETDINOV, Cand. Sci. (Hist.), head,
Centre for Islamic Studies
12, Kirov Lane, Moscow, 109382
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Khayretdinov D.Z. “The Estate of Citizens of the Tatar Sloboda”: On the History of the Tatar-Muslim Community of Moscow at the Beginning of the 19th Century. Islam in the modern world. 2025;21(1):93-114. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.22311/2074-1529-2025-21-1-93-114
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