Metadata : Russian Imperial Political Agency in Bukhara
Collection
- Country:
- Uzbekistan
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archive of Republic Uzbekistan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Узбекистон Республакаси Марказий Давлат архиви
- Postal address:
- Chilonzor Street 2, 100043 Tashkent
- Phone number:
- (998)712770480
- Web address:
- www.mda.uz
- Email:
- info@mda.uz
- Country:
- Uzbekistan
- Holding institution:
- Central State Archive of Republic Uzbekistan
- Holding institution (official language):
- Узбекистон Республакаси Марказий Давлат архиви
- Postal address:
- Chilonzor Street 2, 100043 Tashkent
- Phone number:
- (998)712770480
- Web address:
- www.mda.uz
- Email:
- info@mda.uz
- Reference number:
- И3
- Title:
- Russian Imperial Political Agency in Bukhara
- Title (official language):
- Российское императорское политическое агентство в Бухаре
- Creator/accumulator:
- Russian Imperial Political Agency in Bukhara
- Date(s):
- 1886/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 2,366 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection relates mainly to two topics: petitions from Bukharan Jews regarding the recognition of local population rights of the Turkestan Territory (1898, 1918) and the administration's decree to expel the Jews from the Turkestan Territory (1872-1916). In the Russian Imperial Political Agency's administrative correspondence were deposited letters about accommodating Maksudov, a member of the City Council in Bukhara and his report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the restriction of Jews staying in Turkestan Territory and the legal expulsion of Jews to the khanate of Bukhara (1916-1917); the Turkestan Governor-General's attitude to the granting of Russian citizenship to Bukharan people without recognition of local residents rights (1910), the restriction of Jews’ rights and prohibition from living and owning property in the Russian settlements of the Bukhara Khanate and about sending only clerks rather than merchants to purchase cotton in the Turkestan Territory (1901); the attitude of the Security Department and other institutions to Russian Jews’ right of residence in Turkestan Territory and a petition for the recognition of local Jewish rights(1915); a petition from the Chief of Chardjou Garrison to clarify the issue of Jewish right of residence in Russian settlements in the Bukhara Khanate and the agency's views on this matter (1897); petitions of various individuals for permission to teach the Russian language in Jewish and Muslim schools (1891); petitions and correspondence with the Bukhara Kushbegi about recovery of debts from the heirs of the deceased merchant Aron Penhasov (1899–1900); the appointment of a rabbi to the city of Novaya Bukhara (1916); a refusal to a request to build the Jews a prayer house in Chardzhou (1912); Samarkand Regional Board’s journal of general presence, containing requests from Bukharan-Jewish people about their inclusion in the Samarkand local Jewish community and correspondence with the Samarkand Regional Board on this issue (1900); information about incorrect recognition of Bukharan-Jewish people as locals and the Fergana regional government's attitude with correspondence about the recognition of local rights for Jews (1909); materials on Jews wishing to have Samarkand local Jewish community rights (1903); ownership of property by Jews in Russian settlements in the Bukhara Khanate and Jewish right of residence in Bukhara (1897); the case of a Bukharan Jew's divorce (1915); a circular from the chief of the general headquarter about Jewish participation in delivering products to military forces (1915).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Russian Imperial Political Agency was founded in January 1886. A political agent was an official representative of Russian tsarists in Bukhara. He was assigned consular functions such as protection of personal property and the commercial interests of Russian nationals residing in Bukhara, supervision over them and investigation of all cases of crimes committed by Bukharan nationals against representatives of the Russian nation. The agency existed until the formation of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in 1920.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Penhasov, Aron
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory, arranged in chronological order.
- Author of the description:
- Svetlana Danilova
- Reference number:
- И3
- Title:
- Russian Imperial Political Agency in Bukhara
- Title (official language):
- Российское императорское политическое агентство в Бухаре
- Creator/accumulator:
- Russian Imperial Political Agency in Bukhara
- Date(s):
- 1886/1919
- Language:
- Russian
- Extent:
- 2,366 files
- Type of material:
- Textual material
- Physical condition:
- good
- Scope and content:
- The collection relates mainly to two topics: petitions from Bukharan Jews regarding the recognition of local population rights of the Turkestan Territory (1898, 1918) and the administration's decree to expel the Jews from the Turkestan Territory (1872-1916). In the Russian Imperial Political Agency's administrative correspondence were deposited letters about accommodating Maksudov, a member of the City Council in Bukhara and his report to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs about the restriction of Jews staying in Turkestan Territory and the legal expulsion of Jews to the khanate of Bukhara (1916-1917); the Turkestan Governor-General's attitude to the granting of Russian citizenship to Bukharan people without recognition of local residents rights (1910), the restriction of Jews’ rights and prohibition from living and owning property in the Russian settlements of the Bukhara Khanate and about sending only clerks rather than merchants to purchase cotton in the Turkestan Territory (1901); the attitude of the Security Department and other institutions to Russian Jews’ right of residence in Turkestan Territory and a petition for the recognition of local Jewish rights(1915); a petition from the Chief of Chardjou Garrison to clarify the issue of Jewish right of residence in Russian settlements in the Bukhara Khanate and the agency's views on this matter (1897); petitions of various individuals for permission to teach the Russian language in Jewish and Muslim schools (1891); petitions and correspondence with the Bukhara Kushbegi about recovery of debts from the heirs of the deceased merchant Aron Penhasov (1899–1900); the appointment of a rabbi to the city of Novaya Bukhara (1916); a refusal to a request to build the Jews a prayer house in Chardzhou (1912); Samarkand Regional Board’s journal of general presence, containing requests from Bukharan-Jewish people about their inclusion in the Samarkand local Jewish community and correspondence with the Samarkand Regional Board on this issue (1900); information about incorrect recognition of Bukharan-Jewish people as locals and the Fergana regional government's attitude with correspondence about the recognition of local rights for Jews (1909); materials on Jews wishing to have Samarkand local Jewish community rights (1903); ownership of property by Jews in Russian settlements in the Bukhara Khanate and Jewish right of residence in Bukhara (1897); the case of a Bukharan Jew's divorce (1915); a circular from the chief of the general headquarter about Jewish participation in delivering products to military forces (1915).
- Administrative/biographical history:
- The Russian Imperial Political Agency was founded in January 1886. A political agent was an official representative of Russian tsarists in Bukhara. He was assigned consular functions such as protection of personal property and the commercial interests of Russian nationals residing in Bukhara, supervision over them and investigation of all cases of crimes committed by Bukharan nationals against representatives of the Russian nation. The agency existed until the formation of the Bukharan People's Soviet Republic in 1920.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Penhasov, Aron
- System of arrangement:
- The collection includes one inventory, arranged in chronological order.
- Author of the description:
- Svetlana Danilova
