The Activities of the Russian Imperial Political Agency in the Bukhara Emirate in the Second Half of The XIX Century at the Beginning of the XX Century

This article examines official documents and letters of leaders of various organizations of Russia sent directly to the Russian Imperial Political Agency (Political Agency), which was established on the territory of the Bukhara Emirate. Correspondence between different departments is analyzed, on the basis of those documents that are currently stored in Tashkent, in the Central State Archive of the Republic of Uzbekistan (CSARU). It is emphasized that all relations between the Bukhara Emirate with the Russian Empire and the Turkestan governor-general went through the correspondence of a diplomatic representative. By the decree of Tsar Alexander III in Bukhara, in the beginning of 1885, a Russian representative office was established - the Russian Imperial Political Agency, headed by a political agent appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and subordinated to the Turkestan Governor-General and, consequently, the Military Ministry and the Ministry foreign affairs. The Agency was entrusted with the relations with the Bukhara government on all the most important issues in the sphere of politics, economy, science, security, etc. Attention is drawn to the fact that Russian advisers were assigned as the "political agents" to control the ruler of the Bukhara emirate, and in foreign policy Bukhara was completely dependent on Petersburg. It is noted that the political agency was supposed to exercise control over the emir and his ministers regarding all issues that affected their relations with Russia. Historical sources of that period note that the Russian scientific societies are preliminary. the first stage of their research was carried out on the territory of the Turkestan Governor General, and in the second stage, as archival documents show, Central Asia studies were conducted directly in the territories of the Bukhara Emirate and the Khiva Khanate, rich in natural and material wealth, which at that time were particularly attractive for those gaining weight Russian merchants.