Collection of historical documents in 2 volumes. Author of the project, introduction, biographies of khans, scientific commentaries, comp. and ed. by I. V. Yerofeyev. Almaty: ABDI Companies JSC, 2014. The famous Kazakh historian I. V. Yerofeyeva initiated and was the main executor of a large research and publishing project to search for and publish letters compiled in the chancelleries of the Kazakh nobility on the eve and after the entry of the Kazakh Junior and Middle Zhuzs into the Russian Empire. The result of this large-scale long-term work was two volumes of publication of the epistolary heritage of the nomadic elite of the last quarter of the XVII - first quarter of the XIX centuries. I. V. Erofeeva is the author of fundamental monographs devoted to various aspects of the history of Kazakhstan in the XVIII-XIX centuries, mainly its higher social strata (khans, sultans, batyrs, etc.), their domestic and foreign policy, social status, management organization, relations with the Russian imperial center, etc. The peer-reviewed publication is in line with the same main line of research interests of I. V. Erofeeva. It contains 811 letters from 26 representatives of the highest Kazakh aristocracy to Russian rulers and provincial administrators. Most of these documents have not been published before, and even such documents themselves have not received special study. I. V. Erofeeva reasonably decided, in addition to textual comments on the letters, to preface the texts of sources with a detailed source study article on this category of written monuments. In addition, the biographies of most of the 26 recipients are also little known, and their names do not mean anything to the general reader. Therefore, the publication is accompanied by essays describing the life path of the respective khans and sultans. For the sake of completeness, the publication also contains brief reference articles about those addressed by the nomadic elite: royalty, court dignitaries, governor ... Читать далее