Fate and service. Turkic contours of Russia

The book “Fate and Service. Turkic contours of Russia ” - a detailed illustration of one indisputable (albeit controversial authorship) of the formula:“ Screw Russian - you will find Tatar ”. In the annals, official documents of the empire, all Turkic peoples of Russia were called: Volga, Siberian, Caucasian Tatars. The seal of historical honor: “Tatars” meant belonging to the Horde, the empire of the Genghisides. From Ivan the Terrible, Godunov to Turgenev, Kuprin, Rachmaninov, Akhmatova Russian nobility, the elite was proud of Tatar roots.
Turkic contours were traced from Cossacks to the “Russian itself” (counting mention in folk songs) the profession: the coachman, the Tatar Yamylchi. From the all -Russian understanding of fate to the fundamental difference, noticed by L.N. Gumilev: “In the West, they demanded rights, in the east - services.”
trips to Turkic Russia, meetings with writers, scientists, politicians, military leaders M.A. Gareev and R.S. Akchurin is brought to these contours personal, interested look of the author. The ulcer of the UK Yuk (you can’t get away from fate), and a book from hot controversy does not leave, for example, around the monument to Yermak-the projections of a rich Russian-Turkic history on our today