On that occasion, and then in the devastation of 1240, the Tatar-Mongols of the Horde showed their most cruel and violent side, celebrating their victory around the pyre on which the bodies of the ...

was governor of the city of Kazan (now the capital of Tatarstan), the place enshrined in Russian memory as the location of Ivan the Terrible’s defeat of the Tatar-Mongol Horde. The Behrs family ...