title: TATAR MERCHANTS IN THE MARKETS OF THE NEAR AND MIDDLE EAST IN THE XIX CENTURY
abstract: The article is devoted to determining the role and importance of the Tatar merchant class in the development of foreign trade relations of the Russian Empire with the markets of the Near and Middle East during the XIX century. The author reveals the ethno-confessional features of the participation of Tatar traders in the specified region, the role and importance of the community of culture, religion, language with the peoples of the East, as well as the historical ties of the Tatars of the Volga
journal: Izvestiya of Samara Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences History Sciences