Going to Khiva. 1873. Notes of a campaign participant. Alikhanov-Avar M.

In 1873, Russian troops under the general command of the Turkestan Governor General K.P. Von Kaufman made a victorious campaign against Khiva, whose khan for many years encouraged his subjects raids on Russian possessions. The attack on Khiva was carried out from four directions: from Tashkent, from Orenburg, from Krasnovodsk and from the Mangyshlak peninsula. M. Alikhanov-Avarsky took part in the campaign in the Mangyshlak detachment of Colonel Lomakin, which he described in detail in his memoirs in detail. Of great interest are the literary sketches of the nature of the region and customs of the tribes that had inhabited it.

, for the first time, the book was published in 1899 under the name “A trip to Khiva (Caucasian detachments). 1873 Steppe and Oasis. " In this publication, the author’s stylistics and the writing of geographical and ethnographic names adopted at its time are most preserved.