title: Reflection of Trade and Economic Relations during the Mongol Rule in Pre-Revolutionary Russian Historiography
abstract: This article examines how interpretations of trade and economic relations during the Mongol period evolved in pre-revolutionary Russian historiography.The authors seek to: determine the methodological frameworks and ideological premises of XIXth -early XXth century scholars; reconstruct the composition and structure of their source base; and trace the interpretive dynamics of key topics such as merchant diasporas, monetary circulation, and yarlyks (decrees).The study employs a comparative-histor
journal: Bylye Gody