![]() ![]() It was Kaufman who invited Mezhov to begin compiling what became Turkestanskii Sbornik, as a comprehensive collection of information pertaining to the Russian Empire’s new Central Asian domains. von Kaufman as governor-general of Turkestan in 1867, based in Tashkent. ![]() Although there was a sustained Russian military presence on the Kazakh steppe beginning in the 18th century, the Russian conquest of what later became Soviet Central Asia can be said to have begun in earnest with appointment of K. The introduction to the 1940 index (covering volumes 417-591), translated from the Russian by University of Illinois graduate student Adrienne Seely, is reproduced below.Īrguably the single most comprehensive resource for the history, politics, economy, society, and scientific study of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and neighboring areas before 1917, Turkestanskii Sbornik includes not only Russian-language scholarly and journalistic works on and from the region, but also tens of thousands of pages of English-, French-, and German-language works on Central Asia, originally published in Western Europe and the United States. Mezhov oversaw the project for its first twenty years (1868-1888), but the massive task of indexing its contents by title, subject and author was not completed until 1940. Petersburg and Tashkent, ultimately running to 594 bound volumes. Consisting of over 220,000 full-text pages of newspaper articles, journal articles, and books on Central Asia published between 18, Turkestanskii Sbornik was compiled in a single scrapbook-style copy in St. Turkestanskii Sbornik (roughly translatable as “The Turkestan Collection”) is a one-of-a-kind resource that, until acquired in digital form by the University Library in 2011, was only available at the National Library of Uzbekistan in Tashkent. ![]()
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