The trips of the famous orientalist V. V. Bartold to Bukhara and their scientific significance

Abstract

In 2019, Oriental scholars celebrated an important date — the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Russian and Soviet orientalist Vasily Vladimirovich Bartold. Russian and Soviet orientalist, Turkologist, Arabist, Islamic scholar, historian, archivist, philologist, Academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1913), member of the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society became one of the founders of the Soviet school of oriental studies. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many Russian scientists worked and were engaged in scientific activities in Uzbekistan. It was V. V. Barthold showed a position according to which the necessity of creating an Asian history, which could be equated in Western history, was realized. This article examines the trips of Academician V. V. Bartold to Bukhara in order to get acquainted with the medieval monuments of writing, as well as scientific expeditions of Russian orientalists in the late 19th — early 20th centuries. The attitude of the scientist to the issue of studying the history of Bukhara is analyzed.