Zolotoordynskoe Obozrenie (Jan 2016)
In Which Year Did Kazan Prince Petr Ibragimovich (Hudayqul ibn Ibrahim) Die? »
Abstract
The article represents an attempt both of reconstruction of the Kazan sultan Hudayqul (Petr) ibn Ibrahim’s biography and of reconsideration of the reading of his epitaph in the Archangel Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin. Prince Hudayqul arrived to Rus’ in 1487, when, after the Moscow campaign against Kazan, Alegam Khan with his wife were exiled to Vologda and his mother (Fatima), brothers (Melek-Tagir and Hudayqul) and sisters were deported to Kargolom on Beloozero. December 21, 1505, Hudayqul was baptized under the name of Peter in Moscow in the presence of the Grand Duke, his younger brothers and boyars. January 25, 1506, Peter was betrothed to Evdokia, a sister of the Grand Duke, in the Assumption Cathedral of Kremlin. In such a way Vasily became related with the Kazan Chinggisids, and Moscow could exploit a baptized contender for the throne of Kazan. In September 1509, Vasily took with him his son-in-law in Novgorod. In winter 1512/13, Peter led a large regiment during the campaign against Mozhaysk. In February 1513, his wife Evdokia died. During the Lithuanian campaign of the summer and autumn of 1513, he stayed in Moscow, together with his nephews. In the summer of 1514, during the Lithuanian campaign, he again was left in Moscow. In April 1517, he attended a reception of the Imperial ambassador Sigismund Herberstein. In the spring of 1522, Peter was left again in Moscow during a Vasily III’s campaign against the Crimean Khan. Date of Hudayqul’s death carved in his epitaph (March 13, 7016/1508) seems to be incorrect because the prince was definitely alive in 1522. Hence the funeral slab was made much later after his death and the date on it is a consequence of misunderstood chronicle data describing the Archangel Cathedral. The generally accepted date of Hudayqul’s death (1523) proposed by A.A.Zimin was produced as conditional one (although a very plausible).
