The article presents the renowned Bashkir-Turkish historian A.Zeki Velidi Togan’s (1890-1970) article on the unsuccessful 1549-1550 siege of the city of Kazan by Ivan IV in English translation with an extensive introduction. The article includes also a new and improved edition and translation of Sharif Hajji Tarkhani’s “The Book of Victory of the Province of Kazan (Zafarnama-i Vilayat-i Kazan). In the introduction, Togan’s article is located in the context of his intellectual biography after the Second World War
