MUSCOVY AS A HEIR OF THE GOLDEN HORDE? ABOUT THE BOOK OF B.R. RAKHIMZIANOV "MUSCOVY AND THE TATAR WORLD: COOPERATION AND CONFRONTATION IN THE AGE OF CHANGE, 15<sup>TH</sup> - 16<sup>TH</sup> CENTURIES" St. Petersburg: Evraziya, 2016. 396 p.
The book under review presents the concept of relationship of Muscovy with the successor states of the Golden Horde, on the basis of considerable factual material. The author draws the general conclusion that among such «successors» there was also a Russian state created by efforts of descendants of Ivan Kalita. In the work of B.R. Rakhimzianov the emphasis is placed on peaceful aspects of interaction of Russian lands with the Crimea, the Great Horde, Astrakhan, Kazan, etc. Considerable attention is paid to «internal iurts» - to the cities with adjacent districts which Chinggissids received to control (Kasimov, etc.). It is shown how practice of such grants helped to achieve foreign policy goals facing the Russian sovereigns. At the same time, in the monograph there are some moments which can demand further discussion, namely: defined (however, very insignificant) gaps in the attracted historiography (especially in consideration of a problem of Chervlenny Iar), insufficiency of the analysis of existence/lack of communication between change of practice of a succession to the throne in the Horde and in Russia, and also the fact that the author did not consider the concept of relationship of Russia and the Golden Horde offered in Yu.V. Krivosheyev's works. It is necessary to emphasize that the comments stated above have no character of basic ones and do not reduce a favorable impression about the book by B.R. Rakhimzianov, which filled the major lacuna in a historiography of national history.