The article dwells on the difficult situation of the first decade of the twentieth century in Bukhara, the underground anti-Russian activities of reactionary priests and the preparation of two uprisings in 1910 and 1911 which were prevented by the police. At the end of the nineteenth century and especially in the two decades of the twentieth century the situation in Bukhara was tumultuous. The tragic adventure of Shiites and Sunnits aggravated the already turbulent situation in the emirate's capital. After the tragic adventure caused by Shiites and Sunnits and investigation of its causes being settled, the colonial institutions of Russia strengthened control and surveillance over the activities of emir, officials of the emir's court, intellectuals, Jadids and reactionary priests. The police rather intensified their activities and collected secret information from their agents in urban quarters, bazaars and caravanserais. Tsarist Russia was mostlyapprehensive of anti-Russian moods of reactionary priests supposed to be turned into a powerful movement becouse Bukhara might join Afghanistan or Turkey. As a result of the operative measures of the Russian police one managed to prevent two uprisings in Bukhara.
Key-words: Bukhara, Jadids, reactionary priests, Shiits, Sunnits, General-Governor, Russian political agency in Bukhara, secret police
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