Ulfat Abdurasulov

Allegiance in the Eye of the Beholder: The Khivan Submission of 1700

Abstract In 1700, a petition submitted in Moscow by the envoy Dostak Bahādur on behalf of Shāh Niyāz Khān of Khiva was interpreted by Russian officials as a request to enter the subjecthood of Peter I. Historians have generally explained this episode either as a formal but politi...