The Second Chui Volost
Алтын Кӧлдиҥ Ураҥкай (Кӧбӧктӧрдиҥ оток)
1717–1865 (Volost was part of the Russian Empire from 1865 to 1913)
Location of Second Chui Volost
CapitalKuray[1][2] (Kosh-Agach since 1907[3][4][5])
Recognised national languagesTelengit language
GovernmentMonarchy
History 
• Established
1717
• Disestablished
1865 (Volost was part of the Russian Empire from 1865 to 1913)

The Second Chui Volost (Kebeks Otok,[6] Altan Nuur Urianghai[7][8]) was the otok, formed after the collapse of the Telengit Land. The otok was inhabited by Telengits, who were also called Dvoedans because they paid taxes to the Russian Empire and the Qing Empire.[9] With such dependence, neither Russia nor China participated in the internal policy of the otok, thereby preserving its partial sovereignty.[10] This otok was ruled by Zaisans from the Ak-Kebek dynasty.[11]

History

In the XVIII century, after the collapse of the Telengite land and the Dzungarian Khanate, part of the Telengites, which did not become part of Russia, but recognized dependence on the Qing Empire, formed an independent otok.[12]

Influence of the Qing Empire

During the Third Oirat-Manchurian War on the territory of Altai also began to attack the Qing warriors. Unable to defend themselves, most of the Altaians accepted Russian citizenship,[13] meanwhile, the Zaisan of the Second Chui Volost Yarynak and the Zaisan of the First Chui Volost Telebek began to pay taxes to China. For this, the emperor officially recognized the authority of the Teles in the first otok(in the First Chui Volost), and the Ak-Kebeks in the second,[11] assigning each of the two zaisans the title of "Ukherida", which was equal to a third-level official.[14]

Obligations to Russia and China

In the fifties of the XVIII century, the Second Chui Volost fell into a situation in which the residents of otok had to pay taxes to two states.[15] This situation made it possible to maneuver between the two empires and maintain limited sovereignty.[10]

In favor of the Qing Empire, the Chui Telengites paid annual taxes. In 1757, eight Qing ambassadors arrived in the Second Chui volost for the first time, who collected yasak at the rate of one sable per person. Later yasak for an adult male was equal to 2 skins of sable and 60 skins of squirrels.[16] Children and the elderly were exempt from paying alman.[17]

Telengits for the Russian Empire were obliged to pay yasak, as well as to protect the property of travelers who studied their region, in rare cases to provide Russian officials with horses. The Dvoedans had no other duties towards Russia.[18] Also, the Russian Empire did not interfere in the management of the Second Chui Volost, which was recorded in the "Charter on the Management of Foreigners" of 1822. Because of this, the Zaisans of The Second Chui Volost had great authority among the Zaisans of the Altai dyuchins and loyal subjects of Russia Altaians.[19][20]

Joining the Russian Empire

A turning point in the history of the Second Chui Volost was a visit to Kosh-Agach Tomsk Governor Herman Gustavovich Lerche, which took place in the summer of 1864. The governor agitated local residents about joining Russia.[21] And already January 25 [O.S. 1865] of the year The Second Chuiskaya Volost headed by zaisan Chichkan Tesegeshev[22] is part of the Russian Empire.[23]

Demographics

The Chuya Steppe, the Kurai Mountains and the shops of Russian merchants, 1871

In 1826, Alexander von Bunge visited the Second Chui Volost, and he noted that the local population is two thousand people.[24] Vasily Radlov, who visited the dvoedants in the sixties of the nineteenth century, said that there were from two to three thousand people.[25] The Altai spiritual mission counted two thousand Telengits in the Volost.[26] No one kept statistical records of the population in the Second Chui Volost until the end of the XIX century. By the end of the XIX century, the population was 1,645 people.[27][28]

Geography

Vasily Radlov wrote that the Telengit nomads began above the confluence of the Yodro River with the Chuya. A large number of Dvoedans roamed the territory of the Kurai steppe. In the Chuya Steppe, they roamed in the northwestern part of it.[29]

The State border

As Pyotr Chikhachyov wrote, a roughly sketched pile of stones, skulls and horns of wild sheep served as the border between the Dvoedans and Tuvans. All the border guard posts were occupied by Mongol soldiers, who had the only weapon - a bow and arrow, and only some had rough-made guns[30]/

References

  1. ↑ Швецов С.П. Горный Алтай и его население… Page 231.
  2. ↑ Потапов, Леонид Павлович - Очерки по истории алтайцев. Page 185.
  3. ↑ The references provide information about the archival document and a link to the literary publication in which this document can be found.
  4. ↑ ГАТО. Ф.3. Оп.44. Д.3216. Л.391. Подлинник. Рукопись.
  5. ↑ В составе Томской губернии: История Республики Алтай в документах Государственного архива Томской области. XIX-начало ХХ веков/ редкол.: А. В. Большакова идр.; сост.:В. И. Марков и др.; худ.: В. В. Сальников. — Горно-Алтайск: Горно-Алт.
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  7. ↑ Липовцев С. В. Уложение китайской Палаты внешних сношений. Т. 1-2. СПб., 1828. Page. 191.
  8. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 176.
  9. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 182-185.
  10. 1 2 Самаев Г. П. «ГОРНЫЙ АЛТАЙ В XVII — СЕРЕДИНЕ XIX В.: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ И ПРИСОЕДИНЕНИЯ К РОССИИ». Page 198.
  11. 1 2 Швецов С.П. Горный Алтай и его население… Page 103.
  12. ↑ Самаев Г. П. «ГОРНЫЙ АЛТАЙ В XVII — СЕРЕДИНЕ XIX В.: ПРОБЛЕМЫ ПОЛИТИЧЕСКОЙ ИСТОРИИ И ПРИСОЕДИНЕНИЯ К РОССИИ». Page 173.
  13. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 169.
  14. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 181.
  15. ↑ Этнография Алтая и сопредельных территорий... Page 42.
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  19. ↑ Радлов В. В. Из Сибири... Page 127—128.
  20. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 187.
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  22. ↑ Приветственная речь Ивана Белекова
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  25. ↑ Радлов В. В. Из Сибири… Page 95.
  26. ↑ Алтай и его жители // Миссионер. № 19. 8 мая 1877. Page 50.
  27. ↑ Швецов С.П. Горный Алтай и его население… Page 229.
  28. ↑ Двоеданничество в Сибири. XVII — 60-е гг. XIX вв. / О. В. Боронин; Алт. гос. ун-т. Каф. востоковедения, Алт. центр востоковед. исслед. — Барнаул : Азбука, 2002. — 217, [2] с.; 20 см; ISBN 5-93957-028-3 Page 179.
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  30. ↑ Чихачев, Петр Александрович - Путешествие в Восточный Алтай.
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