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Появилась статья по истории крымских татар на англиском. Пока не читал, объявлю для интересующихся...

Allegiance to Tsar and Allah: Crimean Tatars in the Russian Empire,
1783-1853
Central Eurasian Studies Review, vol. 5, No. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 31-36. Available at: http://cess.fas.harvard.edu/CESR.html

Kelly O’Neill, PhD Candidate, History Department, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., USA,
koneill fas.harvard.edu

This paper explores the question of whether or not a
Muslim could be accepted as a loyal subject of the
Russian Empire, particularly in the southern
borderlands, where the Romanov and Ottoman
empires struggled for dominance in the Black Sea
region and the Caucasus. The central theme of the
paper is the tension between religious and political
identity. Based on the nature of the sources, it
focuses less on establishing whether the Crimeans
were in fact loyal to the Russian sovereign — or to
the tenets of Islam, for that matter — than on the
way their actions and words were interpreted by
Russian officials in Tavrida province (i.e., Crimea
and adjoining territories).