About the book: 2015 / This book introduces the reader to history and ethnography of Central Asia. In it you can find unique information about the daily life of this region, the customs and morals of its population, about the social transformations that Central Asian society experienced at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries. The book also talks about how Russia interacted with Central Asia, what influence it had on its development, who were the people who came to the remote region first to conquer it, and then to study and educate it. The main character is Vladimir Petrovich Nalivkin, a man who lived for almost half a century in Turkestan, from the early 1870s to 1917, rose from a junior officer to the position of chief commander of Turkestan, and left behind many scientific and journalistic works. The book is intended for historians, ethnographers, Islamic scholars, as well as for all those interested in Central Asia and the Russian Empire. Publishing layout saved in PDF A4 format.