oath,
subjecthood,
western Siberia,
dagestan,
muslims,
border lines,
bukharans,
kumyks
Abstract
The article discusses the features of the transition and registration of Russian subjecthood of Muslims of Siberia and Dagestan. The preserved texts of the Russian oath of allegiance and the Turkic texts of oaths are analyzed. The author concludes that up to the second third of the 18th century the Russian subjecthood of Muslims on the Siberian and Caucasian frontiers of the empire could be temporary, periodically renewed through new oaths or canceled, and did not exclude the oath to the second and sometimes to the third power. Legally such subjecthood and the oaths were hybrid.
