It can be said that the Hazar domination in the VIII.-IX. centuries had been a frontier to the domination of the Golden Army over the Russian country in the centuries between XIII and XV. It can not be denied that the Hazarian power, that last for longer than two decades, had strong effects on various Slavic groups who raised up from different tribe lifes and forestry to trade and government organisations. The Hazar Empire and the Hazarian way of living, had counted as "modern" within its own era. The ruling "Khane" (Hakan) had absolutely be one of the monarch race, that means "Son of Khane" and besides showing them a divine respect, their achievements in government works and their position could be compared to the today's king of England. On top of the achieving power, there had been a person with the title "Hakanbey"; on top of the military forces there had been an second person with the title "Il-shat". As the highest symbol of the government, the Khane had been nothing more than a represantative personality; when necessary the "Khane" was dismissed and someone else from the khan race was brought instead. The second characteristic was: within the Hazar Empire, there had been an order and religious tolerance that was not seen on world for this era and even later on.
The Hazar's helped all kinds of men, gave privileges and resulting from this: Itil and the other Hazar cities became a place where many tribes and races met and traded. On the other hand there had be a full religious tolerance in the Hazar Empire. As a matter of fact according to the ancient Turkish usage and customs "each person was free to reach god by his own ways", that means a total religious freedom was existing. For one reason, four five (maybe even more) religions had lived together among the Hazar's. Although a big part of the Hazar-Turk population belonged to the since ever "national religion" of the Turks, the shamanism, the upper class and especially the Khanate and palace population accepted the Jewish religion. The merchant class had became Muslim due to his close relations to Harezm and other Islamic countries; many Christians, who came from Byzantium and other countries, lived in Itil; and the Scandinavian Ros (that means the Vareg) belonged to the Scandinavian-German religion. Therefore, in the country of the Hazar's it was no fault to belong to any other religion and it had no effect on the trade.
Economically raising, the Hazar's began to use "saleried" detachments for the governments defence. This time the military forces consisted mostly Muslim detachments who were brought from various countries. Although it was useful at the beginning, after a short while and especially when the economical situation deteriorated, the Hazar's could not resist to the danger coming from outside. Especially during the middle of the IX. Century when the Itil-Harem trade route had been occupied by the Pechenek Turks the Hazarian trade took a serious stroke. Besides the Pechenek had became a dangerous neighbour for the Hazar's this time. Although the Hazar's tried to repel this danger by signing an alliance contract with the Uz (Oğuz) in the Orient, they could not succeed.
After the Pechenek passed river Idil and came to the sides of Don in 869, the Hazar's organized the Hungarian, who came from the Ural region in VIII. century and settled down at the territory of Lower Don near river Kuban, but this also brought no results. Finally, after a short while the Pechenek ended the Hazarian administration and power by occupying the steppes from Don to Dnestr - today's Black Sea area.