This article considers the political vision and imperial administration projects related to tasks objectives of Russian colonisation Turkestan in second half nineteenth – early twentieth centuries. The author singles out categories colonists their discusses difficulties behind realisation settlement project. Special attention is paid methods used realise development conquered Turkestan, which c...

The dastan is ornate oral history and an important part of the Turkic literature of Central Asia. Traditionally, dastans have been repositories of ethnic identity and history, and some constitute nearly complete value systems for the peoples they embrace. The primary, or "mother," dastans are those composed to commemorate specific liberation struggles. [1] Set mostly in verse by an ozan, [2] mo...