Mari noble warrior (and Mordvin?) in the 11th C. CE by Igor Dzys
"The Khazars also called this people "Tsrmis", which meant "warriors". Hence, the word "Cheremis" for the designation of the Mari people was borrowed by the Russians.
Three Cheremis wars had to be fought by Russia in the second half of the 16th century. These wars are little known to the general public, even well-read in historical literature. They did not like to remember them either in Tsarist Russia or in Soviet times. These were not some small colonial campaigns, but long bloody conflicts that required from Russia a constant diversion of forces and the participation of a huge number of troops. They took fifteen of the thirty-seven years of the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
It can be said without exaggeration that all the foreign policy undertakings of Ivan the Terrible, such as the conquest of the Crimea, the annexation of the Baltic states, the war with Poland and Sweden, failed precisely because every time they had to throw large forces to suppress the Cheremis uprisings.
“These savages are fierce,” wrote N.M. Karamzin about the Mari, - embittered, probably, by the cruelty of the tsarist officials, slaughtered with Moscow soldiers on the ashes of their dwellings, in forests and den, in summer and winter; they wanted independence or death. "
Wars with the Mari began in the very first winter after the capture of Kazan by Russian troops."
-taken from zen.yandex link below
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| Mari noble warrior in the 11th C. CE by Igor Dzys from the book "Kieven Rus", from publishing house "Rosmen". |
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| I think the bottom right picture's label says Mordvin. |
Source/Quote:
https://urzhum.clan.su/_fr/3/-___.htm
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