TURKESTAN IN THE WORKS OF RUSSIAN WRITERS

Abstract

The direction of Russian policy in the Turkestan general Government and its implementation were determined not only by a certain super-idea of messianic significance. They depended not only on the messages from the capital. Of course, the ideas and principles underlying the legislative acts that came from St. Petersburg were formed not only on the basis of certain civilizational attitudes. They were influenced by the image of the region, which was formed from the echoes of events unfolding in the southeast of the empire, and the messages that came to inner Russia from Tashkent. Information about the military actions and activities of the authorities reached the ministries by secret dispatches, some of them were published in the information columns of newspapers. And literary and illustrated magazines replicated works of art created by Russian military and civilian officials. And it was these works that conveyed to the reader the images of events, people, and nature of Turkestan, which formed a generalized image of the region, under the influence of which not only public opinion fell, but also ministerial officials, on whom the direction of the Turkestan policy of the empire depended.