"The great unknown" and the urbanization frontier (on the problem of socio-psychological foundations of the historical “trauma of 1552”)

The author raises the problem of a complex study of ethnically oriented myths about the past and states the importance of analyzing the socio-psychological foundations of the myth on the example of ideas about the capture of Kazan by the troops of Ivan IV in 1552. For the first time in the scientific literature, a comparative study of academic institutions in Kazan and the unique suburban rural Pestrechinsky district of Tatarstan as a main "constructors" and "consumers" of the myth of the historical "trauma of 1552" is conducted. Common elements of social reality are revealed, the specificity of which is caused by urbanization processes and "frontier trauma". In these socio-psychological conditions, the myth of 1552 is an important element of reality, which determines its vitality and complexity of logical deconstructions.