8 800 080 15 05
kense@plibrary.kz
This year marks the 555th anniversary of the Kazakh khanate. Since 2015, when the First President of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Elbassy N. A. Nazarbayev first announced the idea of celebrating the 550th anniversary, there has been a growing interest of the public in the history of the emergence and development of the khanate, the personalities of the Kazakh khans.
Kazakh khanate was a state that existed on the territory of present-day Kazakhstan and neighboring states in 1465-1847, formed during the collapse of the Golden Horde in 1465 and the Uzbek khanate in 1468. It covered the territory from the Volga to the Urals, between the Syr Darya and Amu Darya Rivers, as well as the territory of Khorasan. The state structure of the Kazakh khanate was based on a monarchy and steppe democracy. The first khan was Kerey, the last - Kenesary. Khans were chosen from among the Chingizid sultans.
Invaluable information from the history of the Kazakh khanate can be found in the work "Tarikh-I Rashidi" by the founder of Kazakh historiography, an outstanding scientist and thinker of the XVI century, Muhammad Haidar Dulati. "Tarikh-I Rashidi" is called the genealogy of the Turkic peoples of the XIV-XVI centuries and the chronicle of the Kazakh khanate.
In his work, Dulati calls the date of the beginning of the reign of the first Kazakh khans in 870 AH (1465-1466):
"In those days, Abu'l-Khair Khan completely took possession of Dasht-I Kipchak. He attacked the Juchid sultans, Janibek Khan and Kirai Khan fled from him and arrived in Mughalistan. Isan Buga Khan received them well and gave them the Kozy Bashi, which was located in the West of Mogolistan, on the Chu River. While they were quietly staying there, the Uzbek ulus after the death of Abu'l-Khair Khan became disordered, there were great disagreements and most [people] went to Kirai Khan and Janibek Khan, so that their number reached two hundred thousand people and they began to be called "Uzbek-Kazakhs". The beginning of the rule of the Kazakh sultans went from 870 (1465-1466),
This work, translated from Persian into Kazakh and Russian by I. Zhemeney and M. Koigeldy and published in 2015, readers can find in the Library of Elbassy.
As part of the celebration of the anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate in 2015, the trilogy of the outstanding Kazakh writer Ilyas Essenberlin "Nomads" was re-published. This work served as the literary basis for the film dedicated to the 550th anniversary of the founding of the Kazakh khanate.
The novels of the trilogy - "Khan Kene", "The enchanted sword" and "Despair" - cover events in the Kazakh steppe from the XV to the mid-XIX centuries. The writer was one of the first to describe the formation of the Kazakh people, complex relations with Dzungaria, China, Khiva, Bukhara, and the Russian Empire. The novel has been translated into more than 30 languages.
The President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev said about the novel: "The central place in the creativity of Ilyas Essenberlin is occupied by the famous trilogy "Nomads", which is distinguished by an epic scope, dynamism of action, vivid and unique images of outstanding figures of Kazakh history, exact and expressive language."
Currently, the personal library of Elbassy houses a gift set of a trilogy consisting of nine books in three languages.
Among the publications that tell about the history of the Kazakh khanate and are stored in the Library of Elbassy, new books are of particular interest: "World genealogy of Chingizids" (Tabuldin G., Nabiev M.), "In the flow of time: Ethnological novel-essay" (Kusainov K.K.), "History of Kazakhstan and Central Asia in world orientalism" in four parts (Laumulin M. T.) "The Legend of Taraz: Poetry" (Weisbekker-Ivanov D.) and others, released in celebration of the 550th anniversary of the Kazakh Khanate in the Republic of Kazakhstan.
In the book collections of the Library of Elbassy, there is also a book by the famous historian, Professor Tursun Sultanov "Raised on a white felt. Khans of the Kazakh steppes", dedicated to the study of the political system and power relations within the successor states of the Mongol Empire, the birth of new ethnopolitical communities, one of which was the Kazakhs who formed the first Kazakh state.