АНДИЖАНСКОЕ ВОССТАНИЕ 1898 Г. ПО МАТЕРИАЛАМ ФОТОАРХИВА МУЗЕЯ ЗЕМЛЕВЕДЕНИЯ МГУ

Abstract

The paper continues our series of publications telling about the results of the study of the photo collection collected by D.N. Anuchin in the late 19th - early 20th centuries and currently stored in the Earth Scence Museum of Moscow State University. In particular, this collection contains several dozen photographs by S.A. Melik-Sarkisyan (1866 - after 1913), taken by him in the Fergana region at the turn of the 19-20th centuries. On the basis of these photographs, historical literary and modern scientific publications, the causes, course and consequences of the Andijan uprising of 1898 are analyzed, as well as the biography of its leader Dukchi Ishan (1856-1898), a resident of the Min-Tube village in the Margilan district of the Fergana region, a follower of Sufism. Statistical data on the dead and wounded from both the Russian side (soldiers of the 20th Turkestan line-cadre battalion) and from the rebels, as well as on the penalties applied to the rebels, are given. Conclusions are drawn about the short-sighted policy of ignoring Islam on the part of Russian officials, which became one of the causes of the uprising. Dukchi Ishan’s negative influence on the local population mood is shown: the leader of rebels distorted the true Muslim values through falsifications and forgeries.