Abstract:
In this article, the authors investigate the reasons, process and consequences of the liquidation of the traditional
institution of Khan power by the Russian Empire. At the beginning of the 19th century, the tsarist government
began a unilateral elimination of the Khan's power in Kazakhstan, for which sufficient data, military
resources and funds appeared in the Russian Empire. The Genghisids represented by the Khans and sultans,
who personified the independence of the Kazakh Khanate, were discredited in the eyes of the nomads.
The work was written on the basis of written and archival sources; the article contains documents from the
Complete Collection of Laws of the Russian Empire. In the 18th century, border settlements and trade were
the main Russian interests in the Steppe, and to this end, Russian officials were ready to support Kazakh
leaders who were loyal to the power of the Russian Empire in Kazakh lands. By the early 19th century,
the growing influence of the Central Asian Khanates, as well as the Qing Empire, prompted the Russian authorities
to actively establish a more direct form of government over the Kazakhs. Based on the available data,
it can be argued that in the case of the display of the personality of Uali Khan in previous historical studies,
stereotypes of public perception of the last ruler of the Middle Zhuz emerged, which were formed through
the results of the liquidation of the Khan's power by the Russian Empire. In the course of an objective study
of historical sources, scholarly historians still find out how much the existing work is fair in relation to a politician
of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
