<Article>Reconsidering Khivan-Russian Relations in the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Shukrullah Agha's Missions to the Russian and Ottoman Empires

• SHIOYA Akifumi

  筑波大学人文社会系

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Other Title

• <論文>19世紀中葉のヒヴァ=ロシア関係再考 --シュクルッラー・アガのロシア, オスマン両帝国への派遣について--
• 19世紀中葉のヒヴァ=ロシア関係再考 : シュクルッラー・アガのロシア,オスマン両帝国への派遣について
• 19セイキ チュウヨウ ノ ヒヴァ=ロシア カンケイ サイコウ : シュクルッラー ・ アガ ノ ロシア,オスマン リョウ テイコク エ ノ ハケン ニ ツイテ

Abstract

Muhammad Amin Khan, the ruler of Khiva, dispatched Shukrullah Aga on missions to Russia and the Ottoman Empire from 1846 to 1854. This author focuses on these missions and, after examining the contents of Muhammad Amin Khan's letters to the Russian and Ottoman Empires, reached the following conclusion. Previous studies have emphasised that fearing a repeat of Perovskii's failed military expedition to Khiva in 1839-1840, the Khanate of Khiva signed a treaty with the Russian envoy Danilevskii in January 1843, which the Khivan side later violated. However, through a close analysis of Muhammad Amin Khan's letters, the author demonstrates that the treaty included a few favourable provisions for the Khivan side as well. The treaty safeguarded the activities of the Khivan subjects and their properties on Russian territory. Compensation for the Khivan merchants who had been detained and whose property was confiscated in Russian territory seemed to have been negotiated. In addition, the treaty shelved the demarcation of the border between Khiva and Russia on the Kazakh steppe. However, the Russian army began constructing fortresses in the western and southern parts of the Kazakh steppe in 1846, resulting in a military clash between Russia and Khiva in the lower Syr River basin in 1847. The study thus concludes that the treaty was violated by the movements of the Russian army in the Kazakh steppe.

Journal

• 西南アジア研究

  西南アジア研究 92 30-48, 2021-06-30

  The Society for Western and Southern Asiatic Studies, Kyoto University

Keywords

• The Khanate of Khiva
• Kazakh steppe
• Muhammad Amin Khan
• Nicholas I
• Russo-Khivan Treaty of 1843

Details

• CRID: 1390575031121153792
• NII Article ID: 40022682667
• NII Book ID: AN00128737
• DOI: 10.14989/seinan-asia-kenkyu_92_30
• HANDLE: 2433/276255
• NDL BIB ID: 031684049
• ISSN: 09103708
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I031684049
• Text Lang: ja
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