Tevkelev's journal from the Kazakh Junior Horde (1731 to 1733)
A Tatar interpreter's diary of the talks that brought the Junior Horde of the Kazakhs under Russian rule.
Full title Journal of the interpreter M. Tevkelev, sent to the Junior Horde to negotiate the submission of the Kazakhs, 3 Oct 1731 to 14 Jan 1733 (in Kazakhsko-russkie otnosheniia v XVI-XVIII vekakh, Alma-Ata 1961, doc. no. 33)
Журнал переводчика М. Тевкелева, ездившего в Малый жуз для переговоров о подданстве казахов (1731-1733)
Mamet Tevkelev (Kutlu-Muhammad Tevkelev), Tatar interpreter of the College of Foreign Affairs
Mamet (Kutlu-Muhammad) Tevkelev, a Muslim Tatar interpreter of the Russian College of Foreign Affairs, was sent to Abulkhair Khan of the Kazakh Junior Horde and kept a journal from October 1731 to January 1733. It records the talks over Kazakh submission to Russia, set along the Irgiz river, the Orsk-Orenburg line and the approaches to the Aral Sea. The atlas does not hold the text: the corpus knows it only from the card, which cites a 1961 Soviet Alma-Ata documentary collection, published in abridged form, as a web text.
- How they knew
- Eyewitness
- Who “Tartar” means here
- Not recorded. The author was himself a Tatar in Russian service. The card lists the people he writes about as Kazakhs, Karakalpaks and Bashkirs, with Khiva and the Russian empire around them.
- Why read it
- An eyewitness record of the 1731 negotiations that opened Russian rule in the Kazakh steppe, written by a Tatar diplomat.
- Watch out
- The published text is abridged, and the surrounding documents are official correspondence. The atlas quotes nothing from this work.
What it says
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The fine print
How we know
firsthand The author saw the places or people described.
firsthand diplomatic journal by a Muslim Tatar official among the Kazakhs of Abulkhair Khan; surrounding documents are official correspondence
Research notes
- Published in a Soviet documentary collection with abridgement (Iz zhurnala); Tevkelev also wrote later memoranda used by Rychkov and Levshin.
Why it matters
Eyewitness record of the 1731 Kazakh submission negotiations, the constitutional moment for Russian rule in the steppe; whole collection (1594-1770) gives Russian archival view of Kazakh and Dzungar politics.
Places named
Irgiz; Kazakh Junior Horde; Orsk-Orenburg line; Aral approaches
Peoples named
Kazakhs (Junior and Middle hordes); Abulkhair Khan; Karakalpaks; Bashkirs; Khiva; Russian Empire