The monograph presents the history of the Golden Horde civilization, whose "preocoyanic daughter," according to the anonymous author of the Russian annals of the mid-16th century, was the Kazan Khanate, the ethno-political and socio-economic history of the Kazan state of the Khan period was considered (14381445-15521556), the pre-revolutionary, Soviet and post-Soviet historiography of the history of the Kazan Khanate was analyzed.