AN UNBIASED VIEW OF UFABNB

For this, the Bashkirs ended up obliged to pay yasak (tribute) (to start with with furs and honey, afterwards with cash). In 1573, the Bashkirs observed it inconvenient to pay for yasak in Kazan and asked the Russian tsar to develop a town for them on their land and send out troops to defend against raids of nomads.Encyclopaedia Britannica's editor