Great Horde: friends, enemies and heirs

It is no longer the news that the official history of Russia, from about the 17th century, since the establishment of the "Romano -German yoke" (Prince N.S. Trubetskoy), was composed like a certain fairy tale - a horror story, "Black Legend" (L.N. Gumilyov) .
It is known that this course of history, designed mainly by foreign historians, describes the ancestors of most modern Russians and CIS citizens - especially Russian and Tatars - as a rule, in an extremely unsightly form, and depicts representatives of Western European countries mainly as" positive heroes". It is clear why we, Russians, such a "story" turned out to be: after all, it was essentially composed by the successors of the work of medieval Catholic missionaries - alien political agents - for the convenience of implementing a kind of colonization of the territories of Eurasia, which until the XVIII century in the works of European geographers was called Tatar "(L.N. Gumilyov) ... But, as we see in this book, a lot