Litwin
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"These are two countries being drawn together not because of strength but because of weakness." Couldn't have said it better. Ironically, by getting closer, they might end up isolating themselves further.
How 2 Muslim empires Muscovy and Iran ended up 'on the losing side'
The City of Kazan and Russia’s Non-Slavic Future
As Russia’s demographics shift from a predominantly Slavic, Orthodox Christian population to one that is increasingly Muslim and non-Slavic, the country’s very national identity is likely to evolve. One city shows the way.
newlinesmag.com
in the XVI-XVII centuries. - in the list of clerks and military ranks of Muscovy, a significant part of names - were derived from Muslim names, and on the contrary, according to research by Nosovskiy and A. Fomenko, in the lists of Muscovites they found only one Christian name. We believe that the investigated scribe books reflected information about the privileged urban strata.
M.G. Khudyakov in his famous monograph cites the remark of Maxim the Greek about the strong adherence of the Muscovites to the eastern fashion, that, in his opinion, they will soon put on a turban. Indeed, Western contemporaries repeatedly noted such features of the Muscovites, who probably took over the remnants of the Muslim customs, such as the mass refusal of alcohol, and the prosecution of its use and distribution.
