This paper attempts to reconsider the views on works by B. G. Verkhoven within the integration of Khanate of Kazan into Russia after the Seizure of Kazan in 1552, which is a topical issue in national historiography for the middle 20th century. As a part of wider historiographic discourse, the Seizure of Kazan was viwed not only within the frames of the Moscow State development during the time of Ivan IV, but also within the policy and character of the first Russian Tsar. The works and researches devoted to the character of Ivan IV the Terrible were later called by a collective name of «Ivaninana». The author of the present work has specified the mechanisms of the «propaganda machine» during the time of Joseph Stalin. We believe that a detailed analysis of B.G. Verkhoven’s concept of the Siege of Kazan and the contemporary reaction towards the event will allow us to address the issue of the perception of the Ivan the Terrible and his reign by the historiographers of Stalin period more thoroughly. The analysis of historiographic works by S. V. Bakhrushin, I. U. Budovnits, R. Yu. Vipper, Yu. V. Gotye, S. M. Dubrovsky, V. D. Korolyuk, G. K. Krasinsky, M. D. Kurmacheva, D. S. Likhachev, N. Novikov, B. Telpukhovsky, M. G. Khudyakov made us doubt the conclusion made by A. L. Horoshkevich about the key role B.G. Verkhoven had played in developing the official interpretation of the way Khanate of Kazan was annexed and integrated into the then Russian state. We also doudt that the steady Russian historic expression translated as «expansion of the Russian state», allegedly introduced by B. G. Verkhoven, intrinsically belongs to this historiographer . The paper pays attention both to the substance of B. G. Vekhoven’s concept concerning the annexation of Khanate of Kazan and to the circumstatnces in which the historigrapher’s works were published. We believe that this work will be of much interest to the historians studying the development of the Soviet historiography in the middle 20th century, as well as help to reconstruct the history of the Muscovite state of the middle 16th century.
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