All 3 Uses of
Tatars
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- It is maintained that it existed in ancient times in Russia also, but through the calamities which overtook Russia—the Tartars, civil war, the interruption of relations with the East after the destruction of Constantinople—this institution fell into oblivion.†
Chpt 1
- So the Tatars have taught us, and they left us the knout as a remembrance of it.†
Chpt 5 *
- In our monasteries the monks busied themselves in translating, copying, and even composing such poems—and even under the Tatars.†
Chpt 5
Definition:
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(Tatars) Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th century