Part 2

Some seven more Kolfn left Khazaria and went to the Hungarians \). This was supposed to greatly weaken the Khazars. At the same time, the Kaganate fought with the nomads, the Pechenzgs, who lived between the Volga and the Urals. The Khazars could no longer cope with these enemies on their own and entered into an alliance with another nomadic people, the Torks, who lived across the river. Ural. With their combined forces, the allies defeated the Pechenfgs for the Volga, but still the Khazari forces did not change for the better. From among their allies, the Torci turned to the Gates, and in the 10th century. I was forced to wage a stubborn struggle with them. Back in the twentieth century. The Khazar government found it necessary to strengthen the point of convergence of the Volga and Don and, with the help of Visalian engineers, built the Ukrainian prison of Bfluya Vezha or Sarkel. In X Art. it served to keep the Torks from attacks on Khazarsho. But the old enemies, the Pechenfgs, remained in the steppes and continued to defend the Nabfgs on Khazart 2). From the 10th century The forks of the Russian state also begin to develop. Back at the end of the 10th century. (880) some free Russian people, knowing from their contacts about the riches of the east, made their way to the Caste Sea and plundered some coastal regions there. The same thing was repeated in 909. In 918, the Russians arrived in large numbers on suls to R%loy Vezhz along the river. Don and ate to ask the Kagan for permission to pass through the Volga to the Kasshian Sea, and promised to give half of the spoils upon return. The Khazar government agreed to these conditions. It's hard to explain this clearly. How did the Khazars, a people until that time protecting the trade of the east, agree to let the robbers through and thereby cause damage to trade relations? The only assumption that can be made is that Khazaya was already so weak at this time that she could not quickly concentrate the necessary forces at the threatened point to repel the Rusws. The Russians' campaign was successful. With great booty they returned to the mouth of Itil (Volga) and sent the agreed part to the Katan. But the Muvulmans and Christians of Itil demanded permission from the Kagan to punish the robbers. Vatan informed the Russians about this. In a bloody battle, they were defeated and only 5,000 went up the Volga, then wanted to get through by land, but were killed by the Burtases and Bulgarians 3). This fact is completely random