Eremyan, V.V. Was there the “Horde yoke” in Russia? The medieval statehood through the prism of the tribute dependence

Abstract: The author of this article academician V.V. Eremyan wonders whether there actually have been the “Tartar and Mongol yoke” for many centuries in Russia, or maybe the relations between Russia and the Golden Horde should be qualified somewhat differently. One of the most important sources of that period were the “counts” of people due to the need to establish the approximate number of “taxpayers”…