History of Russia : From the Earliest Times to 1882
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It is not only, as Karamsin spys, because Kazan was the first fortress taken by the Rus- sians after a siege conducted according to the rules of war ; it is because the capture of Kazan marks the culminating point in the history of the long struggle of the Slavs against the Tatars, — a struggle which began by the total subjugation of Russia by the Mongols, but which has continued to our own day, and probably will end only with the conquest of the Tatar races by the Russian Empire. The victory o...f Ivan the Terrible is the first great revenge of the vanquished over the vanquishers, the first triumph at the expense of the con- 1533-1584.] IVAN THE TEEEIBLE. 255 querors, the first stage reached by European civiHzation in taking the offensive against Asia. In the Russian annals the expedition of Kazan occupies the same glorious place as the defeat of Abderahman in the history of the Pranks, or Las Navas da Tolosa in the chronicles of Spain. It was more than a conquest, it was a crusade. During the assault Ivan did not cease to display the standard of the holy faith.
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