Kazakh sultan before the Russian court: a case of Kaipgali Ishimov (1829)
Roman Yu. Pochekaev, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Candidate of Legal Sciences, Associate Professor
National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia, rpochekaev@hse.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0052-5136
Abstract
The article is a research of a case of sultan Kaigali Ishimov of the Inner Horde (Bukey Khanate) who attempted to migrate to the Junior Jhuz in 1829, but was arrested by Orenburg authorities and prosecuted. The author analyses the investigation of Kaipgali’s case, the means and methods of finding the evidence, the position of sultan himself during the trial as well as specific features of relations between the authorities of the Orenburg Region and the Inner Horde at the time of the investigation. The author finds that the problem was in the absence of clear regulation of the way to put representatives of Kazak population (including the Inner Horde) on Russian imperial trial. Besides that, the position of sultan Kaipgali during the investigation is evidence of his knowledge and experience of relations with the Russian frontier authorities. That, in its turn, is an example of acculturation of Kazakhs in the borderland regions even in such specific sphere as court and proceedings.
Keywords
Russian Empire, Inner Horde (Bukey Khanate), imperial legislation, traditional law, court and proceedings, P. K. Essen, G. F. Gens, khan Janghir.
Acknowledgments: The research is fulfilled with the support of the grant of the Russian Scientific Foundation no. 23-18-00268, project “Justice in the system of providing safety and integration processes of peripheral regions of the Russian Empire (18th — beginning of 20th c.), https://rscf.ru/project/23-18-00268/, realized on the base of the Tyumen State University
For citation:
Pochekaev R. Yu. Kazakh sultan before the Russian court: a case of Kaipgali Ishimov (1829). Vestnik of Orenburg State Pedagogical University. Electronic Scientific Journal, 2023, no. 3 (47), pp. 245—255. DOI: https://doi.org/10.32516/2303-9922.2023.47.16.
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