About the book: 2017 / In the middle of the 13th century, Rus' found itself in heavy dependence on the Mongol Empire, and then, after its collapse, on the Dzhuchiev Ulus , or - as this state began to be called much later, when it had already disappeared from the political map - the Golden Horde. The Russian princes were forced from time to time, several times during their reign, to go to bow to the khans of the Dzhuchiev Ulus, for it was there - at the court of the Horde rulers - that their own fate, the fate of their principalities, and ultimately - was decided for two and a half centuries. all of Rus'. Alexander Nevsky spent four and a half years in the Horde, Mikhail Tverskoy - five and a half years and was executed there on the orders of Khan Uzbek, Ivan Kalita traveled to the Horde eight times, which took a total of five years... About the trips and stay of the Russian princes in The Horde and what place they occupied in the system of Horde statehood is told in the book by Yuri Seleznev. Yuri Seleznev - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of History of Russia at Voronezh University.