Contents

(NO)DOUBT
Vdovchenkov E.V.Egalitarian and Hierarchical Societies of Early Nomads in the Eurasian Steppe and Congruent Types of Their Military Organisation

MAIN ISSUE “STEPPE KNIGHTS”
Moiseev M.V.Raids on Diplomatic Missions in the Steppe and Their Settlement in the 15th–16th Centuries. Russia, Tatar States and Ottoman Empire and the Challenge of Criminal “Free Communities”
Milchev V.I. Establishment of the “Cossack Estate” under Catherine II: Act One (1762–1775)
Mirzoev A.S., Abaeva A.M. Bromberg Process, Continuation of the Story: an Incident with the Native Kabardians, the Horsemen of the Caucasus-Gorsky (Warsaw) Division
Tkhamokova I.Kh. The Social Organisation of Terek and Greben Cossacks in the 17th Century

THEORY AND METHODOLOGY
Arnautova Yu.E. “Historism”, “The Problem of Historism”, “The Crisis of Historism”: the Concept of Historism in German “Moral Sciences” (Geisteswissenschaften) in the 19th–20th Centuries

ARTICLES
Suschiy S.Ya. The Institution of the Family in the Don Cossack Society and the Method of its Demographic Reproduction (Late 16th–Early 18th Centuries)
Pochekaev R.Yu. Participants of Russian Naval Expeditions on the International Legal Status of Turkmen People of the East Caspian Region in 18th–19th Centuries
Peretyatko A.Yu. Obscure Archival Sources on the Economic History of the Cossacks in the Second Half of the 19th Century
Shurinova N.S. The Phenomenology of Smells in the Novel “Du Plus Loin de L’oubli” by P. Modiano
Venkov A.V. The Influence of the Modern Cossack Movement on the Formation of Historical Memory in the Region
Venkov A.A. “Wide Is My Motherland”. Domestic Tourism as Vernacular Leisure Practice of Soviet Citizens

DISCUSSION
Social Forms of Organization of Military Communities in the Eurasian Steppe
Disputants: Perevalov S.M., Petrov M.A., Yatsenko S.A., Sen’ D.V.

SOURCES
Oparina T.А. Documents of the Ambassadorial Prikaz on Azov Natives (1643)

REVIEWS
Galkina Yu.M. Review on: Theodosiou C. Le deuil inachevé. La commémoration de l’Armistice du 11 Novembre 1918 en France dans l’entre-deux-guerres. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne, 2018. 320 p.
Egorov A.A. Review on: Nagel S. Marie-Therese. The fate of Marie Antoinette’s Daughter. London: Bloomsbury, 2009. 418 p.

ACADEMIC CHRONICLE
Shalak M.E. VI International Golden Horde Forum “Pax Tatarica: The Genesis andLegacy of the Golden Horde’s Statehood”. In Commemoration of 750th Anniversary of the Golden Horde (Kazan, June 26–28, 2019)
Nozdrin O.Ya. Russian Conference with International Participation “Translations and Translators in Russia in the End of the 16th–the Beginning of the 18th Centuries” (Moscow on September 12–13, 2019)
Boyko A.L., Yarovoy A.V. Russian Scientific Conference “War and Military Traditions in the Culture of Peoples of the South of Russia” (VIII Tokarev Readings) “Interactions between Sedentary and Nomadic Cultures in the Civilization Space of South Russia” (Rostov-on-Don, May 17–18, 2019)
Bunin D.S. The International Conference Devoted to the 100th Anniversary of Dmitry Borisovich Shelov (Rostov-on-Don, October 28–31, 2019)

PERSONALIA
Averyanov A.V. When Work and Hobby Blend Together (the 65th Anniversary of Andrey Vadimovich Venkov)