KEY ASPECTS OF LAND TAXATION IN THE KHANATE OF KAZAN (THE MIDDLE OF THE XV - THE SECOND HALF OF THE XVI CENTURY)
The article examines the foundations of land and fiscal policy in the Khanate of Kazan. On the basis of normative, ethnographical sources the paper describes the land and fiscal system of the state in comparison with the fiscal systems of other Genghisid states of the late Middle Ages. The author identifies that it was organized according to the principle of feudal hierarchy by the subordination of the lower links to the higher ones, which promoted the formation of feudal centralized management system in the Khanate of Kazan. The researcher analyzes the mechanism of taxation (tax rates were established by the generic signs - tamga) and its relation with the folk gatherings in the form of djiens.