Muslims of the Russian Empire have recently become the subject of close interest from domestic and foreign historians. In the history of Russia, the armed confrontation between Muslims and the state happened much less often than cooperation. There are many examples of the entry of the Muslim military and spiritual elite and simply Muslims into power. It is enough to point out the many Turkic surnames of Muslim origin in the Russian nobility. The most famous of them were the Yusupovs, Tenishevs, Urusovs.