"In general, I’m a big fan of India and the East – this must be Basargin Tatarism" (Vice-Admiral Grigory Gavrilovich Basargin – military governor of the Astrakhan province and commander of the Caspian flotilla)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2024-14-1.109-116Keywords:
G.G. Basargin, Vice-Admiral, Astrakhan province, Caspian flotilla, naval officers, diplomatic embassyAbstract
In the history of the Russian Empire until today, there are quite a few little-studied topics. One of them is stories with the participation of naval officers of the Imperial Russian Navy of Turkic origin. This study examines the historical episode in which the military governor of the Astrakhan province, the commander of the Caspian flotilla, Vice-Admiral Grigory Gavrilovich Basargin took part, whose ancestors came from the Golden Horde, left a noticeable mark in resolving a number of pressing issues in establishing ties with the countries of the East. In addition, today's public, and the scientific community as a whole, with the rare exception of specialists dealing with this scientific topic, perceive the immigrants from the Turkic people as being engaged in solving exclusively terrestrial problems. However, there was a time when representatives of our people took an active part in the enormous diplomatic, political and naval efforts on the part of imperial Russia to advance in the southeast direction.
For citation: Nasyrov K.Z. "In general, I’m a big fan of India and the East – this must be Basargin Tatarism" (Vice-Admiral Grigory Gavrilovich Basargin – military governor of the Astrakhan province and commander of the Caspian flotilla). From History and Culture of Peoples of the Middle Volga Region. 2024, vol.14, no.1, pp.109–116. https://doi.org/10.22378/2410-0765.2024-14-1.109-116 (In Russian)
References
Bolshakov L.N. A true story about Taras. Part 2: On the Aral. Orenburg: Kora Publ., 1993. 268 р. (In Russian)
Brockhaus F.A., Efron I.A. Encyclopedic Dictionary. Vol.3 (5). St. Petersburg: Semenov Publ., 1891. 492 p. (In Russian)
Butakov A.I. Information about the expedition equipped for the inventory of the Aral Sea in 1848. Bulletin of the Russian Geographical Society. 1853. Part 7. Section 7. Рp.1–28. (In Russian)
Veselago F.F. General maritime list. Part 6. St. Petersburg: Marine Ministry Publ., 1858. 662 р. (In Russian)
Veselago F.F. List of Russian military courts from 1668 to 1860. St. Petersburg: Marine Ministry Publ., 1872. 754 р. (In Russian)
Vrubel M.A. Letters to my sister, memories of the artist Anna Aleksandrovna Vrubel, excerpts from the letters of the artist's father. Leningrad: Committee for the popularization of art publications at the State Academy of the History of Material Culture Publ., 1929. 205 p. (In Russian)
Dal V.I. Dictionary of the Living Russian Language. Vol.4. St. Petersburg; Moscow: M.O. Wolf Publ., 1914. 814 р. (In Russian)
Dolgorukov P.V. Russian genealogy book. Part 1. St. Petersburg: K. Wingeber Publ., 1854. 350 р. (In Russian)
Ermolov A.P. Notes of Alexey Petrovich Ermolov. With applications. Part 2: 1816–1827. Moscow: Katkov and company Publ., 1868. 626 p. (In Russian)
Katorin Yu.F. St. Andrew's flag over the dunes. Participation of Russian sailors in the conquest of Central Asia. St. Petersburg: Gangut, 2018. 208 р. (In Russian)
Nasyrov K.Z. Commission of Vice-Admiral P.M. Rozhnov on the abolition of the Kazan Admiralty in 1826–1830. Kazan Admiralty (1718–1830): Volga peoples and traditions of Russian shipbuilding: materials of the All-Russian Scientific Conference (Kazan, October 25–26, 2018). Kazan: Marjani Institute of History of the Tatarstan Academy of Sciences Publ., 2018. Рр.208–221. (In Russian)
Russian sailors. Moscow: Military Publishing House, 1953. 672 р. (In Russian)
Chernyshev A.A. Russian sailing fleet: handbook in 2 volumes. Vol.2. Moscow: Voenizdat Publ., 2002. 480 р. (In Russian)
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
