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This book uses materials from the Moscow archives of the seventeenth-century Military Chancellery (Razriadnyi prikaz) to reconstruct the colonization and governance of Kozlov, a garrison town founded in 1635 at the confluence of the Lesnoi Voronezh and Pol’noi Voronezh rivers about 250 kilometers southeast of Moscow. This site was of particular strategic importance as it lay athwart the Nogai Road, one of the principal invasion routes used by the Crimean Tatars and Nogais. Tatar raiding up the Nogai Road had long discouraged Russian colonization south of the Oka River between the Don and the Volga, and on several occasions larger Crimean Tatar armies had managed to cross the Oka and ravage central Muscovy. It was therefore to protect the capital and heartland as well as support resumed colonization of the southern steppe frontier that the Military Chancellery decided in 1635 to block attacks up the Nogai Road by commissioning governors I. V. Birkin and M. I. Speshnev to establish a garrison town at Kozlov and erect a chain of fortifications extending eastward from Kozlov across the steppe as far as Chelnovaia Creek.
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Davies, B.L. (2004). Introduction. In: State Power and Community in Early Modern Russia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230000643_1
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