So was there really the Tatar-Mongol yoke in Russia? Recently, this question has been asked more and more often, and more and more often the answer is given, the yoke of the Tatar-Mongols is an invention of historians! Let's see why this is so.
Firstly. In the Russian chronicles there is no term Tatar-Mongols, we will not find it in V. N. Tatishchev, nor N. M. Karamzin. The term Tatar-Mongols itself is neither a self-name nor an ethnonym of the peoples of Mongolia (Khalkha, Oirats). This artificial term was first introduced by P. Naumov in 1823. The Mongols themselves, as it is not surprising, did not know anything about any Genghis Khan until the Europeans, and then Soviet scientists, informed them about it. And then the Mongols for a long time denied the involvement of Genghis Khan in their people, but still, historians eventually managed to convince them, and if we call things by their proper names, then simply impose.
Secondly. Think for yourself how an ordinary steppe who appeared out of nowhere was able to unite scattered tribes and peoples, armed them and gave them armor (where he took them, Mongolia is poor in iron deposits), fastened the entire army with iron discipline and conquered most of the Eurasian continent, while he contrived everything to do this in a fairly short time. It's funny, but if you think about it, it's completely nonsense. Now think about the distance from Mongolia to Ryazan. No horse could have endured such a transition, even with a constant supply. Now imagine how you can teach the art of war, say, a thousand nomadic gypsy camps and create a discipline among them that the regular army will envy. Also from the realm of fantasy. Do not forget the samethat the army also wants to eat and food for the preparation time is simply needed in gigantic quantities.
Thirdly. According to Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences K. G. Skryabin, there are no noticeable Tatar and Mongolian contributions in the modern genome of Russians, which refutes the theory of the Mongol-Tatar yoke. Based on the atrocities of the Tatar-Mongol invaders described to us by historians, the share of their genes in modern Russian people should be quite significant.
Fourth. Let's open the Laurentian Chronicle and see the description of the conquest of Russia by the Tatar-Mongols. All the events described in the chronicle literally speak of the fact that the Tatars described in the annals are in fact Russian troops led by Russian princes. In this chronicle, which is the main source describing the events of the Tatar-Mongol conquest of Russia, in a strange way, not a single Tatar leader is mentioned, but there are many references where the fruits of the Tatars' victories for some reason are used by the Russian Rostov princes, Georgy Vsevolodovich, and after his death his brother Yaroslav Vsevolodovich. A strange kind of invasion. But if you replace the word Tatars with the word Rostov, you will get a completely coherent picture of the unification of the Russian lands around the Rostov principality. You can also search the Internet for preserved images of that time and make sure for yourself, on the image of the battles, that the Russians, that the so-called Mongols have the same weapons, armor, and most importantly, there is no one with a Mongoloid type of face. There is not a single archaeological evidence left from the yoke and directly pointing to the Tatar-Mongol mass invasion.
So why did historians need the Tatar-Mongol invasion and the subsequent three-hundred-year yoke? The answer is simple. In order to convince the Russian people that they were slaves for three hundred years (to create a slave mentality) and at the same time to remove the history of those events that actually happened during this period.