The scientific study of Kazakhstan. A.I. Levshin - researcher of the Kazakh people.

In the XVIII century. interest in the study of the Kazakh people, and Kazakhstan has been dictated in Russian society, especially the political and pragmatic interests and motives associated with the task of approval of the Russian presence in the Kazakh steppe. Related to this is the fact that the first explorers of history and ethnography of the Kazakhs were mostly military and civil officials of different statuses official who served in the regiments of field and local administrative bodies in the south-eastern borders of the country. However, these studies, although they were brought to life by pragmatic circumstances and bore the imprint of the political situation were, however, far from being alien to the scientific and cognitive interests and objectives.

In 1820 and 1803. the Kazakh steppes on behalf of the Asian Department official went AI Levshin (later - a writer, scientist, statesman, years of life - 1799 - 1879). The results were significant travel. Three-volume study of AI Levshina (1832) is one of the most valuable works on the Kazakhs of the first half of the nineteenth century .. It is the first survey of the history of Kazakhstan, has not lost its scientific importance at the present time. Levshina value of the work lies in the fact that it is made on the basis of primary sources, including used and archival materials. In addition to historical information, the work includes detailed descriptions of all the material side of life, social and spiritual culture, customary law and governance. On the paper attached "Statute on the Siberian Kirghiz."

In the Orenburg region an important role in the organization of research, including ethnographic, played Orenburg Boundary Commission, which operated from 1798 to 1859. Archival and current materials of this commission studied AI Levshin, for three years, "composed by the chairman of the Boundary Commission." Who served for 30 years "on the border of the" superiors in the Office of the Orenburg region, IM Kazantsev created works on the ethnography of the Bashkirs and Kazakhs. He was often in the Kazakh steppe, personally knew the Kazakh khans and sultans rulers.

Thanks to the dedicated work of many generations of Russian scientists - geographers, historians, anthropologists, statisticians, scientists - for science and the general public thought were open Kazakh lands - their historical and cultural heritage, natural and human potential.

Date: 2015-01-29; view: 901