The Kazan period of the life and work of the orientalist I.N. Berezin (based on the materials of the illustrated encyclopedia "Kazan")

Kalimullina Firdaus Galimovna

The paper examines the research and organizational activities of the famous Russian orientalist I. N. Berezin in the Kazan period of his life in 1834-1855. His works are analyzed in detail, and his contribution to the study of the history of Volga Bulgaria and the Golden Horde is revealed. It is emphasized that it was I. N. Berezin who was the first in Russian Oriental studies to so thoroughly study the tarkhan letters of the Golden Horde khans, and introduced new Turkic and Muslim sources into scientific circulation.

Keywords:Turkology, Oriental studies, Kazan Orientalism, history, I. N. Berezin, H. Faizkhanov, V. V. Velyaminov-Zernov, Eastern category of Kazan University, Eastern Faculty of Petersburg University, certificates of the Golden Horde khans, tarkhany certificates.