‘PRIVATE TATARS’ IN UKRAINIAN LANDS OF THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEATH IN THE END OF THE 16th – 18th CENTURY

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  • Олексій Савченко National Museum of Ukrainian History

Abstract

The article is dedicated to private Tatars in Ukrainian lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Its aim is to describe the features of this service social category and to analyze the involvement of Tatar units into military conflicts during the Cossack uprisings and raids of the Crimeans. The author considers the Tatars of such powerful families as Ostrozhski, Zaslavski, Koretski, Senyavski, Vyshnevetski, and tries to analyze their duties. A number of sources are introduced. They reveal certain aspects of everyday life of Tatars in Volhynia and Podillya, and their participation in wars for boundaries between noble families.
Key words: Service Tatars, private armies, khoruhva, rotmistr, magnate

Author Biography

Олексій Савченко, National Museum of Ukrainian History

Reserch fellow, Department of Late Medieval, Early Modern and Modern History of Ukraine

Науковий вісник НМІУ

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Published

2018-12-02

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Савченко, О. (2018). ‘PRIVATE TATARS’ IN UKRAINIAN LANDS OF THE POLISH-LITHUANIAN COMMONWEATH IN THE END OF THE 16th – 18th CENTURY. Scientific Bulletin of the National Museum of Ukrainian History, (3), 256-263. Retrieved from https://visnyk.nmiu.org/index.php/nv/article/view/220

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No. 3 (2018): Scientific Bulletin of the National museum of the History of Ukraine

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